KDevelop syntax parser is barely usable

[Steve the Fiddle]

Just some related feedback,

I work with the Audacity source code (0.6k lines of code
https://www.audacityteam.org/).
Kdevelop 5.2.4, Ubuntu 16.04.

Kdevelop rarely crashes for me, so the database does not need to reparse
from scratch very often, but I still often see KDevelop reparsing very
slowly due to code changes outside of KDevelop (such as when Git bisecting).

I have also been struggling with the problems of KDevelop not seeing
macros, templates, not finding definitions, not finding declarations ... In
short, parsing only works for about 50% of the Audacity code, whereas
KDevelop 3 gave about 90% coverage. The problem may be in part, due to
Audacity now making more use of C++11, and a little C++14, with more
templates and broader use of "modern" C++ idioms. Regardless of the
reasons, the problem for me remains that KDevelop 5 syntax parser does not
work at all well for Audacity source code.

The case for Audacity is complicated due to it using WxWidgets and
automake, but KDevelop 3 could mostly handle that reasonably well with a
bit of effort setting it up. I've been struggling with KDevelop 5 since it
was first released, and have managed to get it from "unusable" to "just
about usable".

Steve

On Wed, 7 Nov 2018 at 10:33, René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday November 07 2018 13:17:28 Aleksey Midenkov wrote:
>
> >database is broken and is reparsing. And it breaks too much (several
> >times a day).
>
> That shouldn't happen, except if you cause KDevelop to crash and then NOT
> tell it to preserve the cache when restarting. Or if you somehow open the
> same session in different versions (an older one from your distro and a
> more recent AppImage version for instance).
>
> >precise, but it worked always and it worked fast. Now kate has ctags
> >plugin. Is it possible to utilize this plugin in kdevelop as a helper
> >to syntax parser and make symbol jumping always available?
>
> That should be possible, but you'd have to patch the ctags plugin json or
> .desktop file to declare itself as a kdevelop plugin too, I think (it
> should show something like
> `X-KDE-ServiceTypes=KTextEditor/Plugin,KDevelop/Plugin`).
> Note however that you will probably NOT see the plugin's settings dialog
> in KDevelop so you'd have to configure it via Kate.
>
> R.
>
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