[openbeos] Re: IDE Questions?

Hello all,

I've been watching the list for some time... And used BeOS all through
college as my primary OS.   At any rate I thought it would be worth
pointing out a very nice IDE that is currently ported to Linux/Unix, Mac
OSX, and Windows (may be a few other ports).  Its major dependency at
the moment is wxWidgets v2.8.4.  So assuming that was available for
Haiku this would be a great IDE to port.

Go take a look at http://www.codeblocks.org/  If anyone is going to
download and try it out be sure to grab one of the nightly builds!!!  

Take care everyone and good luck with all of the Haiku development!  I
look forward to using it.

Josh Schmiedlin

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Subject: [openbeos] Re: IDE Questions?

Andrew McCall wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> Has anyone done any work or has there been any discussions on
> replacing BeIDE yet?
> 
> Over the weekend I have been looking at Scintilla, and if we (by we, I
> mean I have looked and its way too complicated for me to port alone!)
> could get that working under BeOS / Haiku, this would make a great
> start to the editing component of and IDE.

It looks very python oriented to me.
I wouldn't try to port something like this - I would start from scratch.

> The way I see HaikuIDE working would be:
> 
> Code Editor (using Scintilla)
> Project Manager (producing Jam files?)
> Resource Editor - this wouldn't be a drag and drop GUI application
> like Borland Builder provides, more like ResEdit on MacOS.

While we use Jam for the OS, it would take a little (maybe very little) 
work to make something like the Makefile-engine that Be had.

> All working with GCC etc. underneath.
> 
> Am I far wrong?  Would there be an issue with Haiku Inc, "copying" the
> BeIDE if Borland built it, or is the Code Editor / Project Manager
> combo that generic that it Borland couldn't really complain?

Metrowerks built BeIDE, not Borland. I interviewed there to work on it.
:-)

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