Re: rant/flame on compiler Error Reporting (was Re: [DotGNU]Supporting MS Error code syntax)

[Gopal V]

If memory serves me right, Stephen Compall wrote:
> This reminds me of a reply from a Mono on changing their error reporting 
> to match GNU standards instead of what csc does. They said "it would 
> break compatibility with all the .NET tools out there." <ahem> *all* the 
> .NET tools? (i.e. I guess the tools that use the GNU standard just can't 
> compete)
> 
> +, if Eclipse wants to be any good, it had better be extensible in such 
> areas. To match *proper* implementations.

I have already sent in a patch to the improve guys to enable Eclipse to
support CSCC's syntax ... Now it's just a matter of their replying ...
(viz CsccCsharpCompilerAction::buildCommand() and CsccCsharpCompilerAction::
createMarkers())

I don't have an Eclipse installation to test it out for real ... because
I don't want to install Sun JDK 1.4 ... 

A cursory look revealed that the ecsharp IDE seems "half-baked" .. The
compiler seems to focus on single file compilation... Which just won't
do for large projects ... 

I don't know how Anjuta2 supports C# .. But there our idea works more
easily as we can cannibalize the gcc error reporting model ;-)

Gopal
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