On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:24, Derrell Lipman <
derrell.lip...@unwireduniverse.com> wrote:
> For a many months, I've considered what an advanced, easy-to-use
> development environment for qooxdoo applications would look like.
>
I want to thank all of you who have taken the time to provide detailed
feedback to my request for comments. I have intentionally stayed out of the
fray as the topic was discussed on the mailing list, and it has been really
interesting playing the fly-on-the-wall, just listening to all of the
recommendations. I really appreciate it! As Thomas surmised, my questions
were in fact intentionally fairly general, allowing sufficient freedom to
ensure that the discussion was not overly constrained. It did wander a bit
farther off the path I intended than expected, but not overly so. All of the
comments were useful.
A few of the suggestions from the community would take me on a longer
journey of discovery than I can afford right now. In particular, I fully
appreciate the comments that suggested that if I want to work on an IDE, I
should write a plug-in for an existing IDE rather than writing one myself.
That may well be true, but it's not in the cards right now. What I have
knowledge of is qooxdoo. For now, at least, and for the purpose of my Human
Computer Interaction course, I need to work on a qooxdoo application and
focus on the usability of the interface for some subset functionality. I
evaluated the comments and suggestions looking for frequency of similar or
related requests, and prioritized my "wish list" to try to accommodate some
of the most frequently-requested features. I expect that this project will
grow well beyond what I'm able to complete for this one term project, and
that as it moves from the current realm of plans and vaporware into the
realm of real, working software, the priorities will change. As I begin this
project, I'm going to focus on the ability to easily create the user
interface portion of qooxdoo applications, with a live application view and
a source code view. As I develop this, I'll be keeping in mind the various
other requests, to try to make it as easy as possible to incorporate as many
of them as possible as the application grows in capability.
If you're interested in seeing my project proposal that I've posted on our
course wiki, I believe it should be publicly visible here:
http://91-527-f2009.wiki.uml.edu/qooxit+for+qooxdoo
Thanks again! Feel free to continue contributing to the discussion.
Derrell
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