Re: [anjuta-devel] Code assistance plugin

[Moritz Lüdecke <ritze skweez net>]

Hi Sébastien,

On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:46:07 +0200, Sébastien Granjoux wrote:
> I think keeping the symbol database is still useful. At least I would
> like that we define some new interface in order to be able to use
> clang, ctags or something else to provide the same features (auto
> completion, displaying symbol list...)
>
> Perhaps we can get something like:
> * All language support plugin calls the symbol-db plugin.
> * The symbol-db plugin contains only the database management and some
> interface for listing and searching a symbol. It uses some various
> parser plugins for each language
> * For C, we can have a parser plugin using ctags or a parser plugin
> using clang.
>
> But perhaps the database is really not needed for clang, so in this
> case the symbol-db plugin could keep only the GUI and the database
> management is pushed in the parser plugin using ctags. I don't know.

This sounds good.

I'm still not familiar with the code of anjuta, but if I understand it 
right, maybe we can save somewhere the need of symbol-db (and some more 
rules, if required), so first the symbol-db looks of the need of itself 
(and the rules) and deal it correspondingly. This makes the code modular 
and we can easy extend symbol-db in future.

Regards
Moritz