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[jacob navia]

I am developing an IDE since a few years, and after many trials I
have settled for SQL databases for storing information about
the program.

The information I gather is
o type information
o coordinate information (precise line, file column of definition)
o identifier information
o macros definition

and several other stuff like usage tables, etc.

I wonder if anyone here knows of papers or references about this.

Are there any standards that would allow different IDEs to exchange
info?

I have now developed a bunch of SQL tables where the hierarchical
information is stored using "pointers" , i.e. a record can contain
a reference to the index of another record.

This is better than the ad hoc ascii files I had, but still quite messy.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance for any info

jacob

 

[Jack Klein]

I am developing an IDE since a few years, and after many trials I
have settled for SQL databases for storing information about
the program.

The information I gather is
o type information
o coordinate information (precise line, file column of definition)
o identifier information
o macros definition

and several other stuff like usage tables, etc.

I wonder if anyone here knows of papers or references about this.

Are there any standards that would allow different IDEs to exchange
info?

I have now developed a bunch of SQL tables where the hierarchical
information is stored using "pointers" , i.e. a record can contain
a reference to the index of another record.

This is better than the ad hoc ascii files I had, but still quite messy.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance for any info

jacob

Jacob, two things. First of all, this is really off-topic here. You
are talking about a data base program, and although you are probably
writing it in C (most likely lcc-win32), and parsing data from C
source files, it is not a language issue.

Secondly, I think the moderated group and the
unmoderated would be much better places for the
issue. The former does not have a lot of traffic, but the discussions
are usually technically good.

 

[Mark McIntyre]

I am developing an IDE since a few years, and after many trials I
have settled for SQL databases for storing information about
the program.

<snip>

This is (as you know perfectly well) offtopic for CLC.

Why do you persist in posting stupidly offtopic stuff here when you
know you're just annoying others and giving potential customers the
impression that you're rude and ignore people? Its not an impression
I'd want to give, generally.


--
Mark McIntyre

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
--Brian Kernighan