| Re: Use IDL Workbench with other languages? [message #58114 is a reply to message #58024] |
Tue, 15 January 2008 02:57   |
Nigel Wade
Messages: 286
Registered: March 1998
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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.
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> Cheers,
>
> David
Also the reverse situation.
I already have Eclipse installed, and it is used extensively for other language
development. Would installing the IDL 7 workbench interfere, or merge with, the
Eclipse which is already installed and configured?
Installing Eclipse is trivial. Getting the necessary plugins to make it work
with non-native languages (Python, PHP, etc.) is mildly taxing. As you have
already discovered, making it talk to an SVN server is quite entertaining...
But as I've already done this it would be a nuisance to have to do it all again
for the IDL workbench, and even more annoying to have to maintain two separate
(possibly conflicting) Eclipse installations.
--
Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group,
University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
E-mail : nmw@ion.le.ac.uk
Phone : +44 (0)116 2523548, Fax : +44 (0)116 2523555
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