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Re: New IDLDE [message #52857 is a reply to message #52853]

Thu, 08 March 2007 12:04

Michael Galloy
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On Mar 8, 10:20 am, Kenneth Bowman <k-bow...@tamu.edu> wrote:
> Is Eclipse in the future for IDL?
>
> There's a story at the Reg titled "Developers tell Eclipse why it sucks". ;-)
>
> http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/03/08/eclipse_sucks/
>
> Ken Bowman

As someone who uses Eclipse regularly for development in other
languages this brings up a couple competing issues for me:

1. Eclipse is complicated for new users. There are perspectives,
views, editors, workspaces, projects, etc. and it is not intuitive (at
least for me when I started) exactly what they are and how they
interact. Everything is part of a project (which is part of a
workspace), so what happens to the scientist who just wants to edit a
single file, run the program, and discard it?

2. Eclipse is powerful for experienced users. But will it be difficult
to take advantage of that because ITT VIS installs their own Eclipse
and/or disables functionality (to streamline the process for new
users) instead of using my system installed version?

I'm hoping that the IDLDE can both be easy to use for beginners and
play nice with other plugins for developers who want to use Eclipse
beyond what ITT VIS provides (but I have my doubts).

Mike
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		Re: New IDLDE By: R.Bauer on Fri, 09 March 2007 00:58
		Re: New IDLDE By: David Fanning on Thu, 08 March 2007 13:57
		Re: New IDLDE By: Kenneth Bowman on Thu, 08 March 2007 13:10
		Re: New IDLDE By: Robbie on Thu, 08 March 2007 13:32
		Re: New IDLDE By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Thu, 08 March 2007 12:31
		Re: New IDLDE By: Michael Galloy on Thu, 08 March 2007 12:04
		Re: New IDLDE By: JD Smith on Thu, 08 March 2007 10:40
		Re: New IDLDE By: Ben Panter on Thu, 08 March 2007 09:53
		Re: New IDLDE By: David Fanning on Thu, 08 March 2007 09:48
		Re: New IDLDE By: Matt[2] on Thu, 08 March 2007 09:43
		Re: New IDLDE By: Mirko on Tue, 13 March 2007 08:57
		Re: New IDLDE By: Kenneth Bowman on Fri, 09 March 2007 06:50
		Re: New IDLDE By: swingnut on Sun, 11 March 2007 05:17
		Re: New IDLDE By: JD Smith on Mon, 12 March 2007 17:15

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