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