Re: Adam Wilson is now a GSoC 2012 mentor!

2012-05-20 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2012-05-19 12:20, Paulo Pinto wrote: As someone that has experience developing Eclipse plugins, I would say that is more like a 1/4 of Eclipse or even less. :) The UI framework is very little from the complete runtime infrastructure that Eclipse offers. That's why I added the smiley :)

Re: Adam Wilson is now a GSoC 2012 mentor!

2012-05-19 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2012-05-19 06:03, Andrew Wiley wrote: Half of Eclipse ~4-6 years ago ported to D. That certainly doesn't make it not useful, but DWT hasn't managed to keep up with Eclipse. I know, I know. Any help is welcome. -- /Jacob Carlborg

Re: Adam Wilson is now a GSoC 2012 mentor!

2012-05-18 Thread Bruno Medeiros
On 26/03/2012 20:43, Adam Wilson wrote: As to an IDE written in D, that's a HUGE project and well outside the scope of what can be accomplished in a GSoC project. It takes millions of lines of code to make a *DECENT* IDE. I agree, this idea to write a proper, *fully-featured* IDE in D is

Re: Adam Wilson is now a GSoC 2012 mentor!

2012-05-18 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2012-05-18 19:20, Bruno Medeiros wrote: I agree, this idea to write a proper, *fully-featured* IDE in D is simply totally unrealistic. If it's just a D editor with some IDE functionality, sure, someone can toy around and try to work on that, but as for a proper IDE, there is just so much

Re: Adam Wilson is now a GSoC 2012 mentor!

2012-05-18 Thread Andrew Wiley
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Jacob Carlborg d...@me.com wrote: On 2012-05-18 19:20, Bruno Medeiros wrote: I agree, this idea to write a proper, *fully-featured* IDE in D is simply totally unrealistic. If it's just a D editor with some IDE functionality, sure, someone can toy around and

Re: Adam Wilson is now a GSoC 2012 mentor!

2012-03-27 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2012-03-27 00:00, Adam Wilson wrote: Mono is over a million, Visual Studio is almost as much as the Windows Kernel (5m+ IIRC), and Eclipse ... well I don't what they are doing wrong over there but the bloat is epic. In other words, a good IDE is a massively complicated beast. Integrations

Re: Adam Wilson is now a GSoC 2012 mentor!

2012-03-27 Thread Adam Wilson
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:38:33 -0700, Jacob Carlborg d...@me.com wrote: On 2012-03-27 00:00, Adam Wilson wrote: Mono is over a million, Visual Studio is almost as much as the Windows Kernel (5m+ IIRC), and Eclipse ... well I don't what they are doing wrong over there but the bloat is epic. In

Re: Adam Wilson is now a GSoC 2012 mentor!

2012-03-27 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2012-03-27 20:05, Adam Wilson wrote: To be a fully useable *D* IDE this is true, but that's not really an Integrated Development Environment, its just Yet Another Specialized Development Environment. I'd argue that the whole point of the Integrated part of IDE is that everything you might

Re: Adam Wilson is now a GSoC 2012 mentor!

2012-03-27 Thread alex
On Tuesday, 27 March 2012 at 18:06:03 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: Besides, Mono-D has more pressing issues than a potential stand-alone IDE ... CTFE/mixin parsing anybody? Well, I think the GSoC phase will be about implementing UFCS, Mixin/Expression evaluation and CTFE then. Well cool, so I

Adam Wilson is now a GSoC 2012 mentor!

2012-03-26 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
We're very happy and honored to had Adam Wilson on board as a GSoC 2012 mentor. Adam brings solid project management experience and has a specific interest in the Mono-D project. Please join me in welcoming Adam to the ranks of GSoC mentors! Thanks, Andrei

Re: Adam Wilson is now a GSoC 2012 mentor!

2012-03-26 Thread BLS
On Monday, 26 March 2012 at 15:27:29 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: We're very happy and honored to had Adam Wilson on board as a GSoC 2012 mentor. Adam brings solid project management experience and has a specific interest in the Mono-D project. Please join me in welcoming Adam to the ranks

Re: Adam Wilson is now a GSoC 2012 mentor!

2012-03-26 Thread Adam Wilson
On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:15:54 -0700, BLS bizp...@orange.fr wrote: On Monday, 26 March 2012 at 15:27:29 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: We're very happy and honored to had Adam Wilson on board as a GSoC 2012 mentor. Adam brings solid project management experience and has a specific interest

Re: Adam Wilson is now a GSoC 2012 mentor!

2012-03-26 Thread Kapps
On Monday, 26 March 2012 at 19:43:56 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: I think that the best thing that we can do right now is to focus on bringing the parser to completion. It's still missing some key features of D, especially in terms of code-completion and syntax highlighting. It's also missing

Re: Adam Wilson is now a GSoC 2012 mentor!

2012-03-26 Thread bls
On 03/26/2012 01:11 PM, Kapps wrote: And one of the very nice things about Mono-D is that the parser is completely standalone. It would not be difficult to integrate into Visual Studio in the future Well, I am almost on Windows.(Not valid for all of us) (AFAIK) almost everyting to integrate D

Re: Adam Wilson is now a GSoC 2012 mentor!

2012-03-26 Thread Adam Wilson
On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:52:19 -0700, bls bizp...@orange.fr wrote: On 03/26/2012 01:11 PM, Kapps wrote: And one of the very nice things about Mono-D is that the parser is completely standalone. It would not be difficult to integrate into Visual Studio in the future Well, I am almost on

Re: Adam Wilson is now a GSoC 2012 mentor!

2012-03-26 Thread alex
Hi there, Yeah I'm very grateful that Adam wants to be a mentor for GSoC this year - Nevertheless I'm still not sure which feature(s) I want to focus - since there are so many features that sound interesting but are obviously complex and time-intensive (like showing all possible methods e.g.

Re: Adam Wilson is now a GSoC 2012 mentor!

2012-03-26 Thread bls
Hi, to make it absolutely sure !! I hope that Alex's project will make it. (and as one who has worked on a concrete project with Alex, having several private phone conversations, I am sure that Alex will deliver pretty cool stuff. Most probably more than one might expect.) On 03/26/2012