[umbrello-devel] [umbrello] [Bug 330778] New: c++ parser upgrade

[Ralf Habacker]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330778

            Bug ID: 330778
           Summary: c++ parser upgrade
    Classification: Unclassified
           Product: umbrello
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: unspecified
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: umbrello-devel at kde.org
          Reporter: ralf.habacker at freenet.de

umbrello's recent c++ parser has been taken from the kdevelop 3.0 release. 
While fixing bugs in this parser, there has been several issues found: 
- wrong code position reporting 
- hard to find errors and to extend
- slow import
- external dependency to an outdated boost version

With the c++ parser of kdevelop 3.5 there is an updated parser available. The
advantages of upgrading to this parser are:
- get rid of the boost dependency
- easier bug fixing
- easier to extend
- Correct error reporting to the user with a log window or similar to find
missing include dirs. 

Drawbacks: 
- need to be ported to Qt4 (several qt3 classes are used)
- need some migration from KSharedPtr to std::auto_ptr  

Reproducible: Always




Notes: 
1. in general there would be an option to take recent kdevelop 4 parser. The
drawback is that it uses a different ast implementation, which needs
refactoring of the ast to umbrello model feeder. KDE 3.5 c++ parsers ast is
mostly compatible to the recently used 3.0 ast.
2. kdevelop developers has been asked to share there c++ parser implementation
with umbrello (to place it into kdevplatform), which has been rejected. They do
not want to make their ast model public.

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