Chris Velevitch wrote: > On 8/30/06, Aral Balkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I think we need to identify the main issue here: Is it lack of funds >> or lack of expertise or a lack of need? > > Wasn't the issue lack time time by the original developer to continue > developing ASDT? And didn't he ask for volunteers to help out or take > over the project?
well theres a few of us signed up as ASDT developers but I can only speak for myself. My main constraint was time and also knowledge of the eclipse platform. Now i've just completed a project built on the Eclipse RCP i have a reasonable amount of knowledge, but still little time. I think Hank really got to the critical point about taking ASDT / HxDT further and that is they both require a solid core to build other features on top of. Which means you need a decent parser, preferably one that can recover from errors, but also to generate a good model of the source code i.e. a DOM. Once you have that in place you can build a lot of features that people expect from a modern IDE and that make using something like the JDT so productive. Syntax highlighting, auto complete and rare but incredibly useful tools like refactoring support. Although that now has language neutral support in Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-LTK/ltk.html) you still need a DOM to manipulate. So as I see it the initial problem is not a lack of Java / Eclipse Platform knowledge but something much more scarce, people who understand and can build parsers and compilers. Unfortunately I was mainly asleep or missing for my university compiler course so im not a great deal of use in that area. Maybe its worth creating a project specifically for dealing with creating a parser for as2 / as3 / haxe which can interoperate with which ever editor platform be it based on eclipse, scintilla or a custom solution. Or at least creating the specification for how this piece would have to work to allow such an integration. Then when Nicolas has a free weekend he can do some of his ocaml magic and abracadabra, its done ;) seriously, i think once its more clear what is required then there is something concrete for people to take on. If it requires money as an incentive / compensation then im willing to pay into a fund, but it has to have clear goals. Perhaps like a bug bounty system such as http://www.mozilla.org/security/bug-bounty.html. thats my 2 MKD martin. thats my thoughts on the matter.. _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
