Support for Eiffel language

Sorry for the silent treatment. We've been swamped with other priorities lately. The reason we add some languages quicker than others is often because some languages have very similar syntax to already-supported-languages. I'll brush up on the eiffel syntax tonight and get back to you(s).

any help confirming the following assertions would speed things up ;-)...

1. Comments: a double dash - "--" indicates a line comment. there is no multi-line comment structure.
2. Strings: single or double quotes
3. File suffix: ohloh should only consider files with the extension ".e" as eiffel

thanks!

It all depends -- have you been a good boy this year? ;-)

On a more serious note, however, we're very close to releasing our internal code counting tools as open source. This should help everyone in adding and/or modifying ohloh language parsing. I don't think it will be out by the 25th of Dec, but definitely in January.

Hi Emmanuel,

We do not have any code written for Eiffel, but we are hoping that it will be a simple process for anyone to add Eiffel to our line counter. I am working on general instructions for adding new languages to our line counter right now.

We plan to make a public Git repository available, and we will accept patches for new languages from the community. If someone wanted to get ambitious and make other types of improvements (like the much-requested ability to distinguish C from C++), we'd love that.

We are still figuring out how we'll handle processes like patch submission, bug tracking, and documentation. At first, we may simply publish the repository with a README and accept patches via email. We'd like to have a more polished system in the long run. Something that would integrate into the main Ohloh website would be very nice (anyone know of a drop-in bug tracker for Rails?). Our preference to use Git seems to rule out most off-the-shelf project management tools.

We're open to suggestions/advice/preferences. If all goes well, there's more code to follow.

Thanks, Robin

Hi Manu,

Yes, it looks like our counts for EiffelStudio are rather dated, so we're only picking up Eiffel from more recent commits.

I've started a clean recount of the entire commit history. It will probably take a day or two to complete, but there should be a lot more Eiffel in it when it finishes. :-)

No problem -- a recount is on the way.