Hey Guys,
I was thinking about the movement towards "language neutral, multi-language
aware" in Hackystat. One idea that I had is that we should create
StackyHack implementations in some of the major languages. Some of the
easier ones would be C/C++ and C# (or other .net languages). This would be
a first step in creating some sensors for other languages that we already
have for Java.
Each of these could potentially (or already) have Sensors for Build,
FileMetric, Unit Test, and even Coverage. The implementations should be
able to demonstrate how to setup the tools and sensors for the specific
programming language.
Another idea, I had was that we need a Language-Sensor Matrix on this page
http://hackystat.ics.hawaii.edu/hackystat/docbook/apa.html , which would
show what languages the sensors support. If I had to guess right now, I
would have no idea how many sensors are available for C++ development. And
I suppose the other thing I would want to know is if the sensors are Java
based (ie can the sensor be executed via Ant, Maven, command line, or
another java process). For example, if I was a C++ developer it would seem
a little silly to have to install Ant to run the CPPUnit sensor (luckily
that's not the case).
thanks, aaron
ps. I know this email is a little premature, but I didn't want to forget.
