Is there a roadmap for Drupal 8 support?

[dafeder]

I suppose there would need to be a way to identify which drupal version you're using. PHPStorm handles this pretty well.

[robballou]

I haven't looked into how to handle this, so it may be a good process to start. Some thoughts:

• We can add a something to the settings file as a global
• It may be worth figuring out if there is a way to check the current open project for files that ID whether it's 7 or 8 so that it is by project and not a global setting.
• I'm not sure how to handle snippets and other assets, so in actuality it may be best to branch or fork the project?
• The function finding scripts will probably need to be modified/scraped for Drupal 8 with more OOP code and all.

[rodrigoaguilera]

For identifying the core you can use https://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/core!modules!update!update.module/function/update_verify_update_archive/8

Checking if the files needed are present

[robballou]

Sweet, that could be helpful at least to poach into a script (it requires a few Drupal constants/functions but we could make a vanilla PHP version probably pretty easy).

I haven't spent much time with D8 in a while, so I am also looking for people to help here. I think the one thing that will be difficult is I don't know if there is a good way to get snippets for different framework versions in a single package. Some snippets may change, some snippets may not exist between versions, and some will likely not change. Thinking aloud, one solution would be to somehow scope the files with the Drupal version, but I haven't looked into doing that just yet.

[rodrigoaguilera]

I'm not a sublime user. I use vim
https://www.drupal.org/project/vimrc
This plugin checks for the version on drupal and loads the correspondent snippets with a folder for common snippets.

I'm interested in this project because of the snippets. The vim drupal project will be grateful if you provide some kind of license that allows this, right now there's only an empty file.

[robballou]

@rodrigoaguilera I'm definitely interested in helping out. Add an issue or pull request with an appropriate license and I'll take a look!

[rodrigoaguilera]

I'm not a lawyer but Is kind of messy to do a pull request for a license with your name and email in it since I'm not the copyright holder. I did a quick overview and most of the sublime plugins use the MIT license.

https://github.com/apiaryio/api-blueprint-sublime-plugin/blob/master/LICENSE

My plan is to convert the snippets to the vim format with a script. I wish there was an standard format for snippets :_(

[robballou]

I beginning to think a standard or somewhat standard format would be the way to go. Then contributors can help craft the snippet converters for specific editors. I haven't looked into it yet, but I know one of the issues will be editor specific things in snippets (Sublime and Textmate have placeholders that don't work in Atom, and I'm sure vim has similar things that don't work in both :)).

I contributed these snippets to atom-drupal and there's also an issue there for D8: favish/atom-drupal#5

[rodrigoaguilera]

Another snippet format :_(
Just a list:

vim (ultisnips and snipmate)
phpstorm
sublime
atom

I don't know much about the features of each one.

My ideal scenario will be to setup a repo with folders for each format and inside each one
drupal6
drupal7
drupal8
shared (maybe only the ones shared between drupal 7 and 8)

and scripts to convert from one format to another and try to keep them in sync.

Having a standard will allow us to have a master reference to convert from.

Anyway this is not the issue to talk about this but since you mentioned it...

[robballou]

Created this: robballou/drupal-snippets#1 :)