[MonoDevelop] monodevelop-boo: What work lies ahead?

[Petit Eric]

2009/2/10 John Dong <jdong at ubuntu.com>:
> Thanks for the quick reply, Lluis,
>
> I will have to take a closer look at MonoDevelop's parser infrastructure and
> also Boo's interpreter services and see what's a better approach. Definitely
> loading assemblies sounds like the easy way out but it gets ugly pretty
> fast.
>
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Lluis Sanchez Gual <lluis at novell.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> > I've been a long-time user of Mono/MonoDevelop and just recently
>> > discovered Boo. I noticed that the Boo support in MonoDevelop 1.9.1 no
>> > longer has autocompletion support, and was wondering if there's
>> > anything we can do to help.
>>
>> Thanks a lot for your interest. The code completion engine and MD's
>> parser service api have undergone important changes in the past months
>> and the Boo add-in has not been updated to use the new api. Migrating
>> the code to use the new API shouldn't be too hard.
>>
>> However, the big problem of the Boo add-in is that it loads project
>> assemblies into the MD process, and that should never be done. IIRC the
>> parser provided by Boo and the Boo console load assemblies, so that has
>> to be changed.
>>
>> >
>> > I noticed an earlier posting [1] to the list asking for help with the
>> > project, and if time permits this term, I'd like to see if there's
>> > anything I can do. My general question is, I guess, what work needs to
>> > be done on the -boo plugin? I see that the parser needs some work for
>> > code completion, and I also see that Boo uses GTKSourceView while the
>> > other language support addins don't seem to?
>>
>> Boo uses GtkSourceView in the Boo console, which other languages don't
>> have. It would be good to update the code to support GtkSourceView 2.0,

gtksourceview isn't replaced by the "native" MonodevelopEditor ?

>> so it can be built with recent linux distros which don't provide GSV 1.0
>> anymore.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Lluis.
>>
>>
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