Hello ejfried, Wednesday, July 23, 2003, 6:55:09 PM, you wrote:
ecsg> Hi Folks, ecsg> As you may know, Jess 7.0 (Charlemagne) is going to include a full ecsg> complement of developer's tools -- a debugger, a smart editor, a rule ecsg> database, an "explorer", etc. I've been working on some of the ecsg> technology that will go into these tools -- I have weak prototypes ecsg> already, actually. Error checking as you type, smart completion, ecsg> breakpoints, etc. It's pretty neat, actually, but really just a ecsg> prototype. ecsg> Originally, I had considered doing the Jess IDE as one or more Eclipse ecsg> plug-ins. I weighed the advantages (lots of good tools to leverage) vs ecsg> the disadvantages (big (60MB?) download for non-Eclipse users, ecsg> additional support responsibilities for me, again for non-Eclipse ecsg> users). I decided against it; although it would mean more work ecsg> up-front to make the tools stand alone, it would require less work in ecsg> the long run to support and maintain (or so my belief is.) ecsg> Given the recent Eclipse discussions, though, I am reconsidering. Let ecsg> me ask you all directly: Would you rather see a Jess IDE be a ecsg> standalone thing, or an Eclipse plug-in? I'm more interested in ecsg> hearing from people who think this is a BAD idea -- I already know ecsg> that current Eclipse users will think it's a good one! ecsg> --------------------------------------------------------- ecsg> Ernest Friedman-Hill ecsg> Distributed Systems Research Phone: (925) 294-2154 ecsg> Sandia National Labs FAX: (925) 294-2234 ecsg> PO Box 969, MS 9012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ecsg> Livermore, CA 94550 http://herzberg.ca.sandia.gov ecsg> -------------------------------------------------------------------- ecsg> To unsubscribe, send the words 'unsubscribe jess-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]' ecsg> in the BODY of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], NOT to the list ecsg> (use your own address!) List problems? Notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] ecsg> -------------------------------------------------------------------- I vote for the eclipse-plugin to save Dr.Friedman-Hill forces for the core Jess functionallity at the moment. But I want to point out one disbalance: Eclipse is totally free while Jess is not, and quite expencive as I know :) -- Best regards, sorokinru mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send the words 'unsubscribe jess-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]' in the BODY of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], NOT to the list (use your own address!) List problems? Notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
