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reply bitwise <bitwise.pvt gmail.com> writes:
Is there any chance Visual D will be ported to Visual Studio for 
mac?

Is the extension API for the mac version even remotely similar to 
what's on the windows side?

Visual Studio for mac is basically a renamed copy of Xamarin 
Studio, but massive breaking changes were made to XS's extension 
API recently (which is why Mono-D no longer works) and I'm 
wondering.. were those changes meant to align the API with 
whatever is done for windows?

Thanks
Aug 05 2017
parent reply Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> writes:
On 05.08.2017 18:28, bitwise wrote:

 Is there any chance Visual D will be ported to Visual Studio for mac?
 
 Is the extension API for the mac version even remotely similar to what's 
 on the windows side?
 
 Visual Studio for mac is basically a renamed copy of Xamarin Studio, but 
 massive breaking changes were made to XS's extension API recently (which 
 is why Mono-D no longer works) and I'm wondering.. were those changes 
 meant to align the API with whatever is done for windows?
 
 Thanks


As you noticed, Visual Studio for mac is basically Xamarin Studio, so 
the API is very different to VS for Windows.

I tried VS for mac once, and AFAIR it even installed Mono-D, but some 
referenced assemblies have changed. I suspect it wouldn't be too much 
work to adapt Mono-D, but that would be unlikely me doing it ;-)
Aug 06 2017
parent reply bitwise <bitwise.pvt gmail.com> writes:
On Sunday, 6 August 2017 at 11:37:00 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:


[...]

 I tried VS for mac once, and AFAIR it even installed Mono-D, 
 but some referenced assemblies have changed. I suspect it 
 wouldn't be too much work to adapt Mono-D, but that would be 
 unlikely me doing it ;-)


Unfortunately, it's worse than just updating the assemblies. I 
tried to get Mono-D working, but they've changed the way parsers 
work, and I think there were changes in the way a document is 
abstracted as well - meaning entire classes seem to have been 
added and removed. I didn't have much time for it, so that's 
about as far as I got.

Thanks anyways though - Nothing but positive experiences with 
Visual D so far =D



 Aug 06 2017



  parent reply Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com>  writes:


On 2017-08-06 23:39, bitwise wrote:


 Unfortunately, it's worse than just updating the assemblies. I tried to
 get Mono-D working, but they've changed the way parsers work, and I
 think there were changes in the way a document is abstracted as well -
 meaning entire classes seem to have been added and removed. I didn't
 have much time for it, so that's about as far as I got.


In a video from the build conference they mentioned that the editor 
component is now the same as on Windows.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg



 Aug 07 2017



  parent reply bitwise <bitwise.pvt gmail.com>  writes:


On Monday, 7 August 2017 at 10:39:23 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:

 On 2017-08-06 23:39, bitwise wrote:


 Unfortunately, it's worse than just updating the assemblies. I 
 tried to
 get Mono-D working, but they've changed the way parsers work, 
 and I
 think there were changes in the way a document is abstracted 
 as well -
 meaning entire classes seem to have been added and removed. I 
 didn't
 have much time for it, so that's about as far as I got.


 In a video from the build conference they mentioned that the 
 editor component is now the same as on Windows.


Do you have a link to the video?

At first glance, there doesn't seem to be any discernible middle 
ground between the two. I went looking for "extension points" and 
found these:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/mac/extending-visual-studio-mac-walkthrough
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/extensibility/language-service-and-editor-extension-points

Building an abstraction-layer/adapter between those two doesn't 
seem like a weekend project =x



 Aug 08 2017



  parent reply Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com>  writes:


On 2017-08-08 21:04, bitwise wrote:


 Do you have a link to the video?


https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2017/B8095 starting from 2:20.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg



 Aug 08 2017



  parent  bitwise <bitwise.pvt gmail.com>  writes:


On Tuesday, 8 August 2017 at 20:40:32 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:

 On 2017-08-08 21:04, bitwise wrote:


 Do you have a link to the video?


 https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2017/B8095 starting from 
 2:20.


Awesome, thanks for the link.
Busy day today, will have a look tomorrow.



 Aug 09 2017