From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Syd Polk To: Ben Elliston Cc: Mo DeJong , sourcenav@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Adding Ruby support to Source Navigator Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 08:47:00 -0000 Message-id: <3A101BE4.129FADE4@redhat.com> References: X-SW-Source: 2000-q4/msg00222.html Ben Elliston wrote: > > Yo Mo, > > Well, are you going to be around to help keep it working? I don't know > that would have a problem with adding support for ruby, I just want to > make sure we don't end up with an abandoned parser. I know Ben was > thinking about what changes would be needed to move the syntax > highlighter out of the core, but he would know more about that. > > I've already started -- I have the configury in place to build the syntax > highlighters as shared libraries with libtool. The next step is to just add > in the hooks to load these libraries with Tcl's "load" command at start-up. > > I'm trying to decide whether all libraries matching a specific pattern (say, > "*high*.so" should be loaded, or whether they should be named explicitly in > the configuration file. Thoughts? Hmm. I hate configuration files. I would vote for a pattern. Something like: sn*high*.so on unix and sn*high*.dll on windows. > > At any rate, this'll be a vast improvement. > > Ben