Re: IDE

[Eric Ludlam]

On 10/18/2015 01:28 PM, David Kastrup wrote:
> I think that if CEDET fell apart into more independently accessible,
> usable, and changeable parts, it might gather more buy-in on its
> independent components.  Of course, having a separate repository that
> has diverged from the versions in upstream Emacs does not exactly help
> with having contributors become active on just their favorite parts of
> it.

There are many examples where different developers with none to minimal 
help have successfully:

* Added new language parsers
* created new EDE project types and detection schemes
* Added support for new code generation steps.
* built whole new language independent tools using APIs from semantic

The core parts of CEDET is all about allowing extension by having well 
defined interfaces, and clear places where your custom thing can diverge 
and grow.

Many of the contributed pieces are in the upstream "contrib" area when 
they couldn't not provide assignment, and some are part of CEDET when we 
do have assignments.

I think it is instead more fun and easier to go off and whip up your own 
thing wrapping up some external tool than it is to become part of 
something else.

Also, I'm not much of a verbose advocate, which is probably what is 
needed here.

Eric