KDE/kdevelop/languages/cpp/parser

[Alexander Dymo]

On Wednesday 27 September 2006 21:13, Matt Rogers wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 03:33:19PM +0000, Alexander Dymo wrote:
> > SVN commit 589082 by dymo:
> >
> > Make parser and preprocessor a shared libraries and install it. They
> > depend currently on kdevplatform lib but that's ok for now. I think they
> > belong to the platform.
>
> language support plugins and the parsers required for those plugins are
> not part of the platform and the parser and the preprocessor should not
> be made shared libraries.
Languages support plugins are not, but our parsers should be the part of the
platform. I have this feeling after talking to several people here at akademy.
We'd need to release them because people want to use them. An actually
I'm about to use them too to write smoke bindings generator (Richard Dale 
thinks it's a good idea.

> Please revert or continue the discussion on kdevelop-devel
Actually, I think we have two options:
- to release parsers as a part of kdevplatform
- to release parsers separately in their own module
Not releasing parsers at all doesn't seem a good idea for me recently.
kdebindings and kdesdk packages could benefit from them (actually
umbrello devels are waiting for them since ages).