Marco van de Voort wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 07:01:04PM +0300, Al Boldi wrote:
> > George Birbilis wrote:
> > > If we could have Lazarus support many compilers via "plugin" packages,
> > > it would be cool, cause one could create wrappers for both Chrome and
> > > Borland's Object Pascal compilers for .NET
> >
> > I looooove plug-ins!
> >
> > It's the only real thing missing in the IDE, and could make an
> > impressive point in the RAD market!
>
> I think plugin development systems on a grand scale are way overrated.
> They are nice to compile feature lists to compare with other systems, but
> worse to work in. Keep in mind that the "I" of IDE means "integrated" not
> "Plug-in". Otherwise it would have been PDE :-)
I kind of agree, PDE's are way overrated. That's because they're trying to
hitch a ride on the plug-in hype for the sake of plug-ins and not for the
sake of funtionality abstraction. The result being really a wrapper
environment with limited integration and minimal functionality.
OTOH, an IDE with plug-in ability is driven by integration from the start.
Thanks!
--
Al
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