Towards an IDE Model for McCLIM (Draft 2)

Outline:

• McCLIM
• implements the Common Lisp Interface Manager (CLIM) within a free/open source software licensing model
• available with an "adapter", formally a "graft" for a number of window systems and GUI platforms, including X11 (CLX) and Cairo UI (GTK Cairo) 
• CLIM defines the class, application-frame
• The class clim:application-frame may be extended to define a class, ide-frame
• The class ide-frame may be defined such as to provide a convenient baseline for development of graphical IDE view elements
• A configuration parser  may be defined as associated with the class, ide-frame
• IDE view elements may be defined in a manner reminiscent of graphical application interface elements as defined within popular IDE tools, such as:
• Filesystem view
• parameter: Root filesystem pathname (pathname directory)
• parameter: Filesystem element filter function 
• arg: filesystem pathname
• return: boolean "display-p" value
• File view
• parameter: File pathname
• associated concept: File view controller
• define as a CLOS class, file-view-controller
• dispatch on filesystem type, e.g. (defgeneric get-file-view (file controller))
• initialize class and bind to *default-file-view-controller*
• reference class of file view controller within IDE configuration data
• Workspace view
• Extend on workspace definitions created by Eclipse IDE
• define parsers for workspace metadata as created by the Eclipse IDE 
• include "check" for "workspace in use", preventing access to files within a "workspace in use", to minimize concurrency conflicts during file editing
• Workspace URI, index, and structure -- CORBA (TO DO: IDL Interfaces)
• SCCM views
• SCCM local source tree view, and SCCM repository view
• dispatch SCCM view selection per type of SCCM system in use within a root SCCM directory
• incorporate with an interface (FFI, shell commands, or Lisp) onto each supported SCCM model (cf. Emacs VC Mode)
• Observe that a local source tree for an SCCM system such as Git would be, simultaneously, a local source tree and an SCCM repository 
• SCCM repository URI and index system -- CORBA (TO DO: IDL Interfaces)
• Toolchain views
• Reminiscent of Eclipse IDE perspective definitions (???) but focused on discrete classes of toolchain elements
• Toolchain category: GCC
• Tooclhain category: Lisp interpreter
• ...
• To do: Prototype sometime after defining a CLIM adapter i.e. "graft" and/or CLIM widget layer onto CommonQt (?)
• Requirement: Suitable HCI responsiveness
• Alternate consideration: Native XLib FFI interface (CFFI)
• Implement: X11 SHM interfaces
• Limitation: Further complexity in CLIM HCI model on Microsoft Windows platforms
• The Microsoft Windows Explorer Desktop Shell is not X11R6
• cf. XMing and/or Cygwin
• Limitation: Applicability of Shared Memory models in Common Lisp applications
• Objects referencing shared memory
• Shared memory references should remain immutable (?)
• Alterate consideration: Use GTK Cairo interface on Microsoft Windows Platforms
• GTK Cairo integration for mobile OSes?
• Firefox OS (?)