Re: Project idea: IDE

["Ben 'The Con Man' Kahn" <xkahn cybersites com>]

	I think this is a great idea, and long overdue for Linux.  I
probably wouldn't use it, but I think it would be very helpful.

On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Samuel Ziegler wrote:

> I just wanted to put a feeler out to see what people felt about
> a GNOME based IDE.  My concept is to connect all of the parts
> of the IDE (editor, compiler, debugger, source control, etc) through
> CORBA interfaces so that it wouldn't be too hard to put a wrapper
> around your favorite X and use it in the system.  So basically, you
> have a main object which coordinates the activities and connects
> all of the subservient parts.
> 
> To give you an example here are some possible interfaces:
> 
> interface Editor {
>   boolean loadFile(in wstring fileName) raises (BadFileName, 
>               SecurityViolation);
>   void gotoLine(in long lineNumber) raises (InvalidLineNumber);
>   boolean saveFile(in wstring fileName);
>    ... etc ...
> };
> 
> interface Compiler {
>   boolean compile(in wstring makeFile);
>   boolean hasMoreErrors();
>   void getNextError(out long errorCode, out long lineNumber, out wstring error)
>        raises (NoMoreErrors);
> };
> 
> interface Debugger {
>   void stepOut();
>   void stepInto();.
>    ... etc ...
> };
> 
> Well... you get the idea....  Comments?
> 
> --
> Sam Ziegler / ziegler@mediaguaranty.com / sam@ziegler.org
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> 
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						-Ben

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