Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] Developer Guidelines (first draft)

[Andreas L. <no...@sb...>]

On 28 May 2001 00:19:39 +0200, Eric Bezault wrote:
> Andreas Leitner wrote:
> OK, I'll try to put together such little scripts
> and let you know when they are ready. I'll try to
> make them configurable so that we can specify the
> size of the tabs, and have two modes to convert
> tabs back and forth. Hmmm, we need something 
> OS-independent to write these scripts. I think the
> best choice for platform independent language in
> the context of the development of Gobo Eiffel
> package is ... Eiffel. What do you think?

Good choice. Btw, whats that Eiffel thing ppl. here on the list keep
talking about? 

> 
> > In the long term, I think your gelint effort could be used as a basis
> > for a GOBO style pretty printer.
> 
> Yes, a pretty-printer can be written re-using the
> same code as 'gelint'. The only problem with
> pretty-printers is that they usually do not handle
> free comments properly in a nice way.

Maybe if we restrict ourselfe to write free comments in a certain
fashion this problem can be overcome. Dunno, have not thought about this
yet (;

> > Then before a checkin I run the pretty
> > printer and before opening a file, I run the Emacs indentation command
> > to get my preferred indentation.
> 
> I think we will already be able to do that with the
> little scripts described above.

Great. Meanwhile I will look into XML Schemas and try to cut out a first
draft of XACE (I have several new ideas since the last version :). Maybe
I can get a minimal (but functional enough - for our purposes) done in a
reasonable time.

Btw, it looks like there is a new SE beta out with preliminart ACE
support. They do follow the ISE conventions quite closely, but for now
they do not support the external clause.

Ad graphviz: I tried several versions including rolling my own from
source they always run endlessly and consume more and more RAM every
second. What version are you using?

regards,
Andreas