On 7/29/07, Andy Dingfelder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I personally think that the Eclipse CDT might be a good option to > explore instead of focusing on other smaller, less used IDEs.
Well, yeah, like, duh. > Thoughts from any other Eclipse users out there? But there's this funny thing about open source. It's not about "thoughts." It's about actions that actual people choose to undertake. And they do it for their own reasons. Whatever turns them on, or whatever makes them money. If a Code::Blocks individual or group up and decides they're gonna make Code::Blocks support for CMake, hey presto, suddenly you have Code::Blocks support. If an Eclipse individual or group gets a wild hair, hey presto, Eclipse support. What doesn't exist, however - and I think sometimes people make this mistake, which is why I'm saying this - is some kind of labor pool that just goes and implements stuff because it would be a good idea. That's somewhat true in the proprietary commercial world, but no open source volunteer works that way. Thus from the standpoint of people who will actually do the work, it has nothing to do with whether Code::Blocks is more or less advisable than Eclipse. I chose to make a great CMake build for the Chicken Scheme compiler. I did it because open source builds are a sorry state of affairs on Windows. It just seriously bugs me, and I don't think I should have to defect to Linux or swallow the FSF kool-aid to see quality engineering. I don't know if there are even 100 people in the world who care about what I have written. But a few people do care, and I know that unlike most of the other open source builds out there, mine definitely doesn't suck. I made $0 on this. I did it for purely ideological reasons, not what was advisable. In fact, I was so ideological that I almost got evicted twice while pursuing the work! That got old; thankfully, now I'm making money on my CMake skills so honed. So there's poetic justice in where I'm at now. But sensible allocation of resources had nothing to do with why I got started, or why I stuck with it for a man-year. In fact, I daresay anyone sensible would just go get a "real" job and never bother! Like, one of those proprietary corporate jobs where some manager tells a bunch of underlings what's most advisable and where they're going to put their development energies for the next 6 months. I don't want to be too harsh on an innocent query. Soliciting people's interest is often a 1st step in organizing. Action is what counts though. The only way to lead in open source, is by example. Generally speaking, you can't tell open source people what to do. They do what they're inspired to do, because usually there isn't any other reward for it. Cheers, Brandon Van Every _______________________________________________ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake