[haiku-development] Re: Creating or porting an IDE [was Re: What's the status of Haiku?]

  • From: "Earl Pottinger" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "earl_colby_pottinger@xxxxxxxxx" for DMARC)
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  • Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 08:01:06 -0700

What would a good IDE for Haiku look like and what features are really needed?



On Saturday, August 30, 2014 5:37:11 PM, Stephan Aßmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> 
wrote:
 


Am 30.08.2014 22:53, schrieb François Revol:

> On 30/08/2014 20:54, Augustin Cavalier wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Stefano Ceccherini <
>> stefano.ceccherini@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> If we get Eclipse to work on Haiku, that would be hard to beat, even with
>>> a native solution.
>>>
>>
>> IMO Eclipse is one of the worst IDEs out there, and porting AWT is no easy
>> task.
>> I'll have this one in a usable state within a month or two, it already can
>> build itself :)
>
> Actually Eclipse uses its own toolkit different from AWT, so you'll have
> to port even more stuff.
> (although I think someone started doing it, can't recall who)

Ingo started porting SWT, but abondoned the effort after realizing that 
our Interface Kit needs too much work.

Best regards,
-Stephan

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