KDevelop4 architecture overview

[Matt Rogers]

On Friday 16 March 2007 15:28, Alexander Dymo wrote:
> Hi!
> There was a lot of work done recently restructuring, refactoring and
> improving KDevelop4 architecture during January and February. This means
> that a lot of things were changed and now I'd like to give a little
> overview of what happened and what KDevelop4 architecture looks like now to
> keep
> everyone here up-to-date.
>
> This large rework is almost over, there're a few bits not yet ported
> (like DocumentController) but that will come soon. Since now I do not
> expect any revolutional changes in the architecture, only additions
> and improvements as usual.
>
> The main goal of the rework completed by yours trully and Andreas was to
> transfer good things from KDevelop3 into KDevelop4 while keeping
> all the cool KDevelop4-only stuff done by Hamish, Adam, Roberto and Matt.
>
> What was done:
> - the interfaces are separated from shell classes
> - plugins no longer link to the shell that loads them
> - directory hierarchy was cleaned up and reorganized
> - project management and language support infrastructure
>   underwent a major rework
> - the new Sublime UI is in place
>
> What is pending:
> - document controller
> - profile support (code is there, it's just not used)
>
> What is planned (only major arch changes):
> - unification of DUChain with the goal to extract common du-chain
>   code useful for all language supports
>
> What does that mean to you:
> I do hope that means that KDevelop4 now is a relatively stable platform
> to develop against. You can write plugins or fix/improve the shell
> without worrying that your work will be obsolete tomorrow.
>
> Hope the attached document helps. By all means, please bug me if something
> is wrong/missing/unclear in the document.
>
> PS: if you're still hacking on 3.4, give up! KDevelop4 is waiting for you
> ;)

This needs to go on the wiki.

-- 
Matt
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