On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 07:48:41PM +0100, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 04:38:28PM +0000, Joerg Bornemann wrote: > > There is the ongoing effort to replace the old outdated parser with a > > clang, similar to what's been done in qdoc. The corresponding JIRA > > issue is QTBUG-71835. > > > a more radical and much simpler approach would be switching to gettext > (actually, or at least in fundamental functionality) - that doesn't need a > whole c++ parser to do a sensible job. > > oh, wait, that topic ain't new ... ;)
I wasn't aware of a related discussion, and I actually think this could be a way forward. The most prominent difference is the (usually) per-class automatic context which I always found too clever to be sensible, and that's effectively also the only reason to need a C++ parser. Andre' _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
