Not sure I'll have the time to evaluate it - go ahead! --
Itamar Syn-Hershko http://code972.com | @synhershko <https://twitter.com/synhershko> Freelance Developer & Consultant Lucene.NET committer and PMC member On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 11:36 PM, Troy Howard <thowar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Itamar -- Yup! I thought it'd be worth exploring what JUniversal can do in > addition to our existing toolset. IMO, it'd be nice to settle on a single > process that gets us through the major of the work, vs jumping around > between a lot of tools. > > > > On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 12:20 AM, Itamar Syn-Hershko <ita...@code972.com> > wrote: > > > Troy, we already are using mainly 2 tools - Sharpen and a conversion tool > > by Tangible software. We also have a lightweight R# plugin developed for > us > > to help with porting tests (where conventions don't really matter): > > https://github.com/hmemcpy/ReSharper.ExJava > > > > We should probably settle on one method and stick with it, preferrably > one > > that produces the cleanest code, and one which can work both with > > directories, single files, or file parts > > > > -- > > > > Itamar Syn-Hershko > > http://code972.com | @synhershko <https://twitter.com/synhershko> > > Freelance Developer & Consultant > > Lucene.NET committer and PMC member > > > > On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 7:58 AM, Troy Howard <thowar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > A while back, we had an idea to build a semi-automated Java->C# > > translation > > > tool to assist with the porting process. The idea was that an automated > > > process would probably never fully be able to translate something as > > > intricate as Lucene, and even if it could, it probably wouldn't be very > > > idiomatic... but it could be used to do some of the heavy lifting, > making > > > it easier to keep up with Java Lucene. > > > > > > At the time there weren't very good tools for this, and the idea sort > of > > > fizzled. We have a lot of find/replace macros that we all use for this > > > work, but not a proper tool. > > > > > > I just heard about JUniversal, which attempts to do exactly this: > > > http://juniversal.org/ > > > > > > It's meant for Android developers who want to target Windows Mobile > > phones, > > > and keep a single codebase... but I think it might work for our use > case > > as > > > well. > > > > > > Anyone want to explore this tool and see what it can do for us? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Troy > > > > > >
