Re: Getting started with beagle

["Joe Shaw" <joe joeshaw org>]

Hi Dirk,

On Feb 10, 2008 4:35 PM, Dirk Uys <dirkcuys gmail com> wrote:
> I've been keeping a close eye on the beagle project for the last few
> months or so and I want to play around with the project.
> Is there a nice IDE to use? I know about monodevelop, but I don't know
> if that's the best route to go? Can someone please give some advice as
> where to start and what to use.

Personally, I use emacs for editing source and make to compile it.  I
tend to run Beagle out of the source tree by hand.  But I am an old
fart.

I know that some other people do use Monodevelop to do source hacking,
but I think they still use make to build it.  Because Beagle predates
Monodevelop our source tree and library installation doesn't match up
naturally, and so you have to do some work to get it to do all the
autocompletion, etc.  There's no reason why it *has* to, though, and
I'm open to changing it.  If you've played around with Monodevelop and
like it quite a bit, a good way to get started would be to set it up
so that you can do development in it.  That'll give you an idea of the
different libraries, how they work together, and how the source code
is organized.

Joe