Re: [gnome-love] SW Developer want to contribute. How to start?

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:57 AM, Carsten Petersen <c petersen45 gmail com> wrote:

Thank you all for your replies.
I consider using emacs. I have used emacs some years doing working on a Unix platform.

But have do I get the sources for Gnome.
I have started building a local environment by using 'jhbuild'.
Is that the correct directions?

I am working in a Ubuntu 10.4 distribution.

Why are people not using integrated environments, like Eclipse, Netbeans or Anjuta?

Mostly historical I suspect.  Most of us tend to program like they did in the early days.. emacs in a window + a command line so we can test the application.  Although IDEs do this, I know I personally tend to favor this method because it each window has its own context. 

sri