Hi Arthur, On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 23:18 +0100, Obey Arthur Liu wrote: > One way I would see this implementable without unreasonable amount of > work and with immediate improvement over some existing workflows is to > write an Eclipse plugin.
That sounds quite interesting, I am quite comfortable programming in Java and have used Eclipse almost exclusively as an IDE before. > This solution avoids having to reinvent the IDE parts of the tool by > leveraging the quite decent aspects of Eclipse. That sounds good! > Now you're going to tell me that few people even consider doing Debian > packaging using Eclipse, but I'd retort that the Eclipse framework is > probably the only one were such work would make sense (compared to an > Emacs mode or a Vim plugin). Not only that, but it would help applications developers who use Eclipse to develop too quickly produce and test Debian packages in a more familiar environment. > I think that such a plugin can have a lot of potential to integrate > the many packaging tools available to Debian developers, including: > git-buildpackage, lintian, pbuilder, dput, mini-dinstall... > Besides this, Eclipse brings VCS integration (SVN, Git, Hg...), syntax > coloring, auto-formatting (and that could include control files > someday! possibly using Config::Model)... > Examples across the industry have shown that it is possible to create > very good Eclipse plugins dedicated to specific development > environment (I'm thinking about Android, Java App Engine/GWT and > countless others). These are so polished that they have been able to > attract developers that would usually never use Eclipse. I used a basic Eclipse plugin when using the Lejos NXJ project, it was a big help with improving usability. > I believe we can do a comparably good job by leveraging and visually > integrating the existing Debian packaging tools. This was what I had in mind, would this be something that you would consider accepting to the program, even though its strongly related to Eclipse? Chris
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