Re: [SrcML] Attention: Future of SrcML project

[Leif B. <lei...@un...>]

Hi,

first of all, I wish you all a Happy New Year. Hope you had a good  
start! I'm really sorry my response time is that bad, but I'm busy  
with a software system we develop for the medical faculty, which  
rollout is planned end of january, and also moving to a new  
apartment. So I would like to finish the XHTML-plugin, but I can't  
promise this will be done by mid of february.

Generally I agree that we need to get new developers to be  
successful. I think using Eclipse could make this easier. So why not?  
I hope I understand that correctly: Eclipse provides a parser? We  
won't have more than a java parser also at the beginning. But it  
makes more sense to write a new parser from which the whole Ecplise  
platform could gain. Right?

I important point for me is (which is already solved): a command line  
interface, because I don't always want to use a complete IDE or  
perhaps for some automated scenarios (similar to JUnit tests with our  
analyzer plugins).

How big will be the work to use Eclipse? Can we get the basics (like  
parsing and viewing) running in a adequate time, to attract new  
developers early?

The killer-killer-application would be, if Eclipse uses SrcML in the  
background... ;)

Leif