Perl support in Eclipse (EPIC plugin)

[hakonhagland]

See https://stackoverflow.com/q/77279237/2173773 for background.

I did some tests on Ubuntu with the Eclipse Epic plugin and there seems to be some bugs (maybe it works better on Windows?)

Home page: https://www.epic-ide.org/

The GitHub page does not allow submitting issues (only pull requests): https://github.com/jploski/epic-ide/

The bug tracker does not allow submitting allows submitting tickets (after logging having logged in): https://sourceforge.net/p/e-p-i-c/bugs/

Idea: Maybe contact the author and ask about a transfer of GitHub repo to perl-ide? Then people can start submitting issues, and bugs can more easily be fixed?

[oalders]

That sounds like a good idea to me.

[hakonhagland]

Submitted a ticket to notify the author: https://sourceforge.net/p/e-p-i-c/bugs/721/

[oalders]

Not sure how to interpret that response from the author.

[bscan]

I think this organization's best bet moving forward will be language servers, as it reduces the problem of needing to maintain complex solutions for each individual editor. Especially in light of the EPIC maintainer's comment of there is very little (almost no) development going on in this project. Eclipse supports LSP as well.

Perhaps we can start by making lists of the features provided by the editor specific projects (e.g. EPIC, Padre, IntelliJ Perl, vim-perl) and ensure we have those features available in language servers? There may be opportunities to repurpose some of the EPIC code as well to be made available to other editors.