On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:57, Christopher Sean Morrison <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mar 9, 2012, at 12:11 PM, Tom Browder wrote:
>
>> Yes--looking for what you envision.
>
> It's really up to your discretion but the goal I originally had in mind was 
> simple -- an image
> to help devs immediately start writing and debugging code without our 
> involvement.
> The idea was inspired during GCI

GCI (I know you don't mean Ground-Controlled Intercept)?

> where the interest is brief, fleeting, and from high-school students.
...
> I think that just raises questions about what all those other modules are,
> and most are irrelevant to new devs.

Okay, agree.

>> In addition to default vi and gedit have already included editors:
>> xemacs and jEdit.
> Can we get emacs with X11 support instead of xemacs?  Subtle,
> but they have different function sets.  The .emacs config file at
> http://brlcad.org/wiki/Emacs would be great to have already in place too along
> with the cmake-mode.

Will do.

>> I am thinking of including an environment like the Eclipse C/C++ IDE
> If you do include one, it might help to do the initial set up so it's got a
> project already pointing to our sources with build output going to the build 
> dir.
> That said, I'd probably leave it out for a first cut.

Definitely easier!  It would be good to get comments from young devs
about what they feel is missing after they see it.

> So I keep going back on forth on the build directory.
> I think there's some value to have cmake already run with
> BRLCAD_BUILD_LIBS=ON and installed into /usr/brlcad,
> but then run make clean so the object files are gone.

Will  do.

> Other than that, nothing else comes to mind.  Can't wait to try it out!

I'll load a draft VM with the bones we've discussed later today for
comment.  Docs and such will be later.

Cheers!

-Tom

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