You're right about some major changes in my opinion. I don't like the big discussions about tiny little things like what you called the "Ctrl-Alt-Tab-Space" should sort the list in alphabetical order, and not .." stuff either.
I like the idea of code analysis though I think this is a complex area which probably is not so easy to implement. I fear a little that the results of such a "non-human" code analysis won't be too impressive. I mean, can software really detect interesting coding problems (e.g. what is a poorly named variable, method, etc.)? I mean the names "in" and "out" can be absolutely sufficent in one place and meaningsless in another place. We've got these great refactoring tools which I used extensivly the last two weeks when I had to get code working which had been written by someone else and was really bad in lots of places. But I also think this should be enough on this matter for now. No question that it should always be improved and extended sometime later, but I'd really like to see some improvements on the basic IDE features now first. All the refactoring, code analysis and other advanced features can only be as good as the basics of the IDE are. I'd like to mention just a few things (which probably all have been mentioned before) like working jsp includes, not deleting paths from the cofiguration just because they are temporarily gone, creating missing directories instead, checking compiler dependencies, etc. Michael Descher > -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Im Auftrag von Alain RAVET > Gesendet: Dienstag, 30. Oktober 2001 08:19 > An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Betreff: RE: [Eap-features] Automatically create compiler output path > > > Manuel Laflamme wrote > >> It would be great that IDEA creates the compiler output path > if it does not already exist. > > > In fact, this is part of the bigger "project templates/w$z$rd" request. > > This is quite frustrating to have to build each new project from scratch. > I won't pronounce the forbidden word "W*ZARD", but there is a > place for something new here. > Without going as far as JBuilder - though I wouldn't oppose to it > -, IDEA could be smarter when it comes to project creation. > > Why does it offer to create 'src', but not 'classes', or 'javadoc'. > I would also add 'data' and 'test'. > I have created a zipped skeleton for Tomcat based projects, that > I unzip on the IDEA created structure when I need it. > Based on your type of project (EJB, applet, standalone), you > would use the same trick with another base. > > > We cross a lot of fine-tuning/polishing type of requests in this > list, and I have posted my share of it. > But I feel we should also talk about bigger changes. > > For example, I made 2 - unsuccessful - attempts to suggest some > form of code analysis, or "code smell" detector. > When do you refactor? When you detected a "code smell" > (duplicate, poorly named member, classes with 150 methods...) > BTW, Oracle JDeveloper, and XPtools (will) offer it. > I feel this is the time now to start introducing this kind of > functionalities. > > Is nobody interested in higher level improvements? > Is this list doomed to be the > "Ctrl-Alt-Tab-Space" should sort the list in alphabetical > order, and not .. > request list? > > > > Alain Ravet > > > This mail has been checked by exiscan. > To be safe, please scan the mail attachements with your local > virus scanner ! > > _______________________________________________ > Eap-features mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-features > _______________________________________________ Eap-features mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-features
