Hallo all again. I have created separate wiki pages in Confluence per programming language support. This should contain more info about the status of existing plugins, TODOs, requirements etc. Please feel free to update them for the plugin(s) you wish to contribute.
Regarding this page <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Adding+New+Language+Support>, my idea is to make it a generic easy how-to for every beginner who wishes to add a new language plugin, or contribute to an existing one, to be able to follow the steps and do it. We may also split it to different technologies, i.e. How-Tos for LSP, ANTLR etc. I leave it to those who know more than me to decide. Please contribute to this page; it will help to find volunteers to help us, but also, if we have a common structure/methodology to develop the plugins, we can contribute to more plugins since the steps would be common. We may, of course, deviate in some plugins, but these would be the general steps. So, when you develop your plugin, please spend some time to contribute to this page; it will pay off in the future. @Eric: you have done excellent work in adding a lot of comments with resources etc. to this page. May I ask you to move your comments to the main content instead and give the wiki page more shape? Thank you in advance. As a nice to have, would be to have a space in apache netbeans github to add these plugins (maybe under contrib) instead of our own github space. I haven't checked this page <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Experiment%3A+split+the+main+NetBeans+repository> that Eric provided yet, but it could be the solution. As an aside, I tried to work on plugins that I thought would be easy to integrate and have a quick announcement (hey, NB now support XXX language), but it was not that simple: - Kotlin plugin requires to build the kotlin part (I don't speak Kotlin yet) - Rust & Scala plugins need to be rewritten, unfortunately - Maybe I take a quick look at Ruby plugin, too, and be luckier there. :) Thank you all. Kind regards, John. On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 at 22:14, John Kostaras <jkosta...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you Brett. Welcome on board. I added you as PoC for clojure and > scala in confluence > <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Community+plugins> > for the time being. > > We will be updating that and this wiki page > <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Adding+New+Language+Support> > for the time being and we 'll see how we can organise. > > Any ideas are welcome. > > Kind regards, > > John. > > > > On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 at 11:54, Brett Ryan <brett.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I wrote language support for postgres openedge i think back in nb5, i >> think it’sa lot easier now, back then i needed to implement a state machine. >> >> I wouldn’t mind seeing clojure support, and scala revived. I’ve only just >> taken an interest in clojure and use scala every day. >> >> > On 1 Jan 2022, at 01:42, John Kostaras <jkosta...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > If you are interested in contributing in maintaining other programming >> > languages support for NetBeans, please reply to this thread. >> > >> > There are many programming languages that have been dropped from Apache >> > NetBeans, for various reasons. A list can be found here >> > <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Community+plugins >> >. >> > Some of them need little effort to provide at least some basic >> > functionality. >> > >> > The task is not easy, as there are different technologies (JavaCC, >> ANTLR, >> > LSP) that these plugins have been written into, and the NetBeans APIs >> have >> > been changed during time. A draft wiki page on how to add language >> support >> > to NetBeans can be found here >> > < >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Adding+New+Language+Support >> > >> > . >> > >> > We could have a separate thread or organise in slack, e.g. to create a >> > better overview of what needs to be done and how to proceed. >> > >> > Thank you in advance. >> > >> > K/r, >> > >> > John. >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 >> >> >> >>
