New Interface

[Allen Winter]

On Monday 01 December 2008 8:49:43 am David Nolden wrote:
> Hi fellow KDE developers!
>
> I've read the release plan on the wiki, and it says that only bugfixes are
> allowed in the currect cycle. Now we have a few shared bugs between
> kdevelop/kate that could either be fixed the wrong way on one of the sides
> by adding more hacks, or the right way by allowing better interaction
> between both sides.
>
> This is mainly about "simple" code-completion logic, eg. when is it
> triggered, when is it stopped, and when text is used for filtering.
> Currently these are hardcoded within kate, while actually that logic is
> specific for each kind of completion and language. So Niko Sams has come up
> with a patch to solve the problem. We have discussed, and came to the
> conclusion that while this could be solved with one single additional
> signal in
> KTextEditor::CodeCompletionModel, a new interface would be the much cleaner
> solution.
>
> However we also want KDevelop4 to be compatible with KDE 4.2, since that's
> hopefully what will be out when KDevelop 4.0 is released.
>
> So would it be ok adding the following interface in the current freeze
> state?
>
> A few points why this is not too dangerous:
> - All the affected code is, from what I know, currently _exclusively_ used
> by KDevelop, so the danger of breaking any other applications, even when
> problems should arise, is close to zero.
> - KDevelop is already now used as main editor/IDE by many developers, and
> we'll start using this interface right away should it be added. This means
> that it may get the testing it needs during the months until KDE 4.2
> release.
>
No objection adding a new interface.
But, did you check with the Kate people to make sure they are ok with your proposal?
Remember that we can't change the interface later so we need to get it right the first time.

-Allen