As a user who has contemplated trying to help out - this entire exchange is sad. NetBeans was only recently by far the best C/C+ IDE and its support of other languages was a big plus point for using it. I now have had to retreat to Visual Studio Code (yuk) simply because I can use it for multiple languages. I know NetBeans was always first a Java IDE but its sad to see the wider contexts dropped because of lack of support.
I did start to examine some of the C/C++ stuff but I'm glad I didn't waste my time trying to learn it - I am a Java and C programmer but don't know much about NetBeans structure. mikej On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 1:57 PM John Kostaras <jkosta...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hallo all, > > NetBeans used to have many languages support in the past and I find it very > sad seeing NetBeans dying slowly because many developers abandon it because > it only supports Java (and Groovy?) nowadays. > > This wiki page > <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Community+plugins> > lists a number of plugins that NetBeans used to support in the past. It is > true that they have been developed with different technologies and > versions, but some of them need not that much effort to be fixed. How do we > integrate them? As plugins? Integrate them in the baseline? > > The mentality that we don't support them because nobody understands the > code, is also true about NetBeans itself. Shall we give up supporting > NetBeans too because most of us don't understand it source code? > > I will keep on the effort and I hope others will. To me abandoning other > programming languages support means the end of NetBeans itself, sooner than > expected. > > Thank you Eric for bringing this up. > > Kind regards and happy New Year, > > John. > > > On Thu, 30 Dec 2021 at 23:34, Matthias Bläsing <mblaes...@doppel-helix.eu> > wrote: > > > Hi Eric, > > > > Am Donnerstag, dem 30.12.2021 um 14:44 -0600 schrieb Eric Bresie: > > > > So then what’s next? > > > > > > > > Option 1: Take the CDDL/GPLv2 licenses source and make that work on > > > > Apache NetBeans (nothing stopping the resurrection of nbpython > > > > project). If the necessary steps are documented and donation happens > > > > the steps can be reproduced against the donated codebase. > > > > > > > > > From the nbpython code (I.e. > > > https://sourceforge.net/p/nbpython/mercurial/ci/default/tree/ ), the > > > mirrored hg code > > > http://source.apidesign.org/hg/netbeans/contrib/file/6b5e5bedcd2a , > the > > > mavenized version > > > https://github.com/timboudreau/netbeans-contrib > > > ? Or something else? > > > > > > My branch > > > https://github.com/ebresie/netbeans/tree/nbpython_integration3 > > > > > > had code mainly from the hg code with tweaks to make it a cluster, > > updated > > > headers using the Netbeans tools, and a few other updates. > > > > > > I was on pause with expectations of picking up (and redoing) once the > > > donation was available (which why I keep asking about the status). > > > > > > Is that what is meant? > > > > Don't know. Sorry, but I won't look into support for a language I don't > > have any use-case for at the moment, as enough time already flows into > > NetBeans. > > > > > > > > Option 2: Rebuild Python support from scratch. You already said that > > > > the LSP approach might work and given that > > > > > > > > https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/3385 > > > > > > > > is tested with python LSP, there is already work done elsewhere. > > > > > > > > > I’ve been toying with a work in progress on new LSP Python > > implementation. > > > > > > For the reference to Python LSP in the above PR, is there some other > > Python > > > LSP in work (if so who is doing so as the more the merrier)? > > > > > > Or was this pr using Python LSP to test the change? Or was this > intended > > > to use the pr with WIP to further verify the PR? > > > > > > > Read the comments, they are not that long. The author claims, that he > > used a python LSP to test line based folding, I have no further > > knowledge about this. > > > > Greetings > > > > Matthias > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.apache.org > > > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > > > > > > >
