On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 18:03 +0100, Sébastien Wilmet wrote:
Having both gedit and Anjuta is already a duplication of effort. Personally I prefer only a text editor, and use the command line or other applications for the other features (git, glade, devhelp, etc).
Many developers prefer this way, but many developers prefer IDEs, and that's what we're talking about building. That's not a duplication of effort: it's a completely different type of program. gedit is an excellent text editor, but I would generally prefer to use a real IDE rather than gedit, and I suspect many new contributors would as well. I'm all for moving more features from gedit into gtksourceview, since that benefits all users of gtksourceview, but I'm not sure that I agree with your argument in favor of specialized text editors. Eclipse and Netbeans are probably the most successful open source IDEs, and they support tons of languages through plugins, which gives them a large base of users outside the Java community. I suspect the way to be a successful IDE is to emulate them. My $0.02: I think maintaining one quality GNOME IDE is do-able, where lots of GNOME developers are fixing annoyances in the same IDE, but maintaining separate IDEs for Python, C, C++, Vala, Javascript, ... would probably be well beyond our current resources. (On the other hand, Visual Studio is the highest-quality IDE I've ever used, and it does come in different variants depending on what language you are using....) Just some rambling thoughts. Cheers, Michael
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