Overview over GSoC 2015 ideas for KDevelop -- interested?

[Aleix Pol]

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Sergey Kalinichev
<kalinichev.so.0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As you could already notice I'm greatly interested in improving the
> kdev-clang plugin.
> So I'd love to participate this year in GSoC for KDevelop, again :)
>
> Here is the first draft of features that can be implemented:
> https://paste.kde.org/pghhwcxlt
>
> What do you think?
>
> --
> Sergey
>
> On 3/7/15, Kevin Funk <kfunk at kde.org> wrote:
>> Heya,
>>
>> KDE again was accepted as org in this year's GSoC, that's great!
>>
>> If anyone of our fellow KDevelop users/contributors wants to take part in
>> GSoC, now's a good time to start the engines!
>>
>> If you plan to apply for one the GSoC tasks we have in the pipe line, we
>> expect you to introduce yourself and work a bit with the KDevelop source
>> code
>> and possibly file a few patches so we get an idea about you and your skill
>> set.
>>
>> Deadline:
>>
>> GSoC Student application period starts at March, 16th, closes at 27th
>>
>> Overview over our tasks [1]:
>>
>> Project: Clang Integration
>> Brief explanation: Finish the kdev-clang plugin to make it a usable
>> replacement for the existing C++ plugin.
>>
>> Project: Checker Framework
>> Brief explanation: A generic framework should be created which provides the
>>
>> foundation for other plugins to report errors.
>>
>> Project: SVN Plugin Rewrite
>> Brief explanation: Rewrite the SVN plugin to use the C-API directly.
>>
>> Project: LLDB Support
>> Brief explanation: Write a new plugin to support LLDB on KDevelop
>>
>>
>> => *Lot's* of interesting tasks!
>>
>> Taking part in a GSoC is a great experience (been there, done that), and I'm
>>
>> welcoming people to try it out!
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> [1] https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2015/Ideas#KDevelop
>>
>> --
>> Kevin Funk | kfunk at kde.org | http://kfunk.org
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Hi,
To be honest, I'm not very interested in fixing the highlighting
configuration features. For me, the most important thing is that
kdev-clang gets on par with oldcpp.

Some things you didn't mention that I think are fundamental:
* code completion on code that is not fully syntactically correct. For
example: "int f = a$(%" triggering code completion at $ should
properly show me the "a*" completions and at % should show the
different overloads of a().
* better integration in Qt development. At least being able to use the
new connect syntax would be great. Also supporting the traditional one
(like we used to) would be an ace.

Aleix