> My thinking was that each version of Perl might have its own file, such as perl5036.xml,
These static files tend to age very badly and maintenance is no fun ° ...
My idea - and I've discussed this recently with haj, who currently maintains cperl-mode - is to have CPAN-modules which return the necessary code intelligence.
The IDE would just need to initialize at startup - best with caching - what it finds in @INC.
If via LSP or a native API should be up to the IDE plugin maintainer.
Like this switching between Perl versions would be easy, just install the necessary modules via cpanm.
I'm just in the process to write such a module using core modules. And attempt to build a proof of concept with emacs and a web demo in JS.
°) e.g. emacs has built in GNU info browser, and cperl-mode offers to browse Perl docs via info, but the last available info file for download was for v5.08 IIRC. |