documentation for writing language plugins

Hamish Rodda rodda at kde.org
Mon Mar 2 20:28:08 UTC 2009


On Tuesday 03 March 2009 01:33:04 Matt Rogers wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I know that there's some documentation on how the duchain is designed, but
> is there any documentation on how to get started writing a language plugin
> so that we get code complete, code generation, refactoring, etc?
>
> I want to work on the ruby language plugin and I want to start one for perl
> too.

http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdevplatform-
apidocs/language/duchain/html/Implementing.html

This is the best we have for the moment, if you want to study things best to 
look at java or php support first, c++ support is often overly complex for what 
you'll need (iiuc).

Cheers,
Hamish.




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