| Re: Use IDL Workbench with other languages? [message #58111 is a reply to message #58024] |
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Paul Van Delst[1]
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David Fanning wrote:
> jeffnettles4870@gmail.com writes:
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>> I don't have IDL 7 yet, so i haven't seen the new Workbench. I have,
>> however, been reading the myriad of posts about it here on the
>> newsgroup, and am both exciting and afraid of getting it :) I know
>> that the Workbench is based on Eclipse, which, I think, is a java
>> development platform that can be used for developing in many languages
>> (other than java). So, if I get IDL 7, am I going to be able to use
>> it for development in other languages (say, PERL)? Or will I have to
>> separately download, install, and (gulp) configure the "real"
>> Eclipse? I'd love to have one development environment for all the
>> languages i routinely use.
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> Jeff, did you get an answer to this question? I've been
> asked this several times myself, and I don't know. I expect
> it is something people will WANT to know.
A different question: Let's say you already have Eclipse installed on your system and you
use it with a bunch of different plugins, e.g. Fortran95(Photran), ruby(RDT), some
Python(Pydev) and Javascript(JSEClipse).
So, since the IDL Workbench is based on Eclipse, can you install the IDL Workbench DE as a
plugin to your existing install?
Going in the other direction (i.e. installing Workbench and then other Eclipse plugins)
seems possible:
http://www.ittvis.com/idl/IDL7_FAQ.asp#wp999301
But, some words are:
"Because the IDL Workbench *includes* [emphasis mine] the Eclipse platform, ..."
I think it should be the other way around, that is, you have Eclipse and you include the
IDL plugin. Given that the major feature of IDL 7 is the Workbench itself, it doesn't
seems like ITTVIS planned to go the plugin route.
And continuing:
"... any other Eclipse-based feature that requires the platform *should* [emphasis
mine] be able to work within the IDL Workbench environment."
The use of the word "should" in the above is a bit disconcerting. I do enough testing of
my own software that I would rather not see "it should work" in literature for an
expensive software product. Does ITTVIS have a Testing/QA divison that /isn't/ its user
base? (just kidding :o)
cheers,
paulv
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