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RE: [platform-swt-dev] Introduction
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Steve,
Thanks
for the welcome. I'll take a look at the bugzilla report, and see where I
can't pitch in. Perhaps as time passes, I can even sneak into the elite
ranks of you all, the developers (a committer I suppose would be the
term).
Ahaha! Long memories by my readers! :-) I have been
quick to clarify that the point of the "Dump your IDE" article was not simply an
"anti-IDE" position -- it was anti those IDE's that provide
some significant barrier to development, be that full integration with
third party tools, seamless integration with other members of a development
team, ability to use cross-platform, cost/licensing etc. My view was until
something else came along that as a total package presented a better picture,
stick to a text editor. It seems nearly all commercial IDE's have some
sticking point (and it may well be the "commercial" part, i.e. revenue model,
that is the reason for those). But the great thing about Eclipse is that
it is open-source, pluggable, multi-platform, etc., so as an IDE it ranks pretty
high on my scale. In essence, if you put a tool above your development
needs --- bad. If your development needs come first, and the tool
accomodates them -- good. You would think that would be obvious, but I
have been surprised how many times the former happens.
Anyway, good to talk to you....and I look forward to the interaction, and
making some friends here.
BradO
Hey Brad! Go ahead and ask away. I suggest
you read the SWT Component page:
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-swt-home/main.html
If you're looking for work to do, we use
Bugzilla to capture the state of the world. If you are working on
something, you need a Bugzilla report. Most of the activity right now is
porting and bug fixing, not designing. What can I tell you? Check
for SWT items in the Eclipse plan.
Do you still hate IDE's?
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Introduction
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Greetings!
I wanted to introduce myself, and
ask a simple question about needs of
the SWT development group and project.
My name is Brad O'Hearne, I'm a
developer in Irvine, CA, and I am
currently embarking on heavy SWT
research and development for some writing
I am doing. I would like to
get to know the dev bunch here through
list interaction, and
occasionally bounce various questions off you.
I do not know what the
immediate needs of the SWT development effort
are, but I would like to
be involved, to the degree that I can while my
other aforementioned
project is ongoing. If someone could give me a
brief update (or direct
me to a doc) of where the dev effort is at, and
needs that exist, since
I will be examining source code anyway, perhaps I
can chip in somewhere.
Anyway, glad to make your acquaintance.
:-)
Cheers,
BradO
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