Re: Project Center inspiration sshots

[Nicolas Roard]

Le 3 janv. 05, à 12:43, Philippe C.D.Robert a écrit :
> As the name implies, PC should IMHO be the tool which glues together 
> all steps of a development project. Hence PC shouldn't become a 
> specialised tool itself, but it should seamlessly integrate such tools 
> into the development process if needed! Right now there is just Gorm 
> as an example, but other such tools could be a good visual debugger, a 
> profiler, a class browser or an UML tool of course.

Well, I think PC is a good idea, and a necessary old-school IDE for 
GNUstep (plus compared to many other IDE, it's quite straightforward).
But I also think it shouldn't be happy with the statu-quo, because 
there's a lot of possible things you could add in an IDE (like, UML 
representation, class browser, etc.)

I think implementing an ide working at a higher-level (as in 
http://ide.roard.com) can be done using DevelopmentKit as a starting 
point.
The problem we have of course with "high-level" IDE is that in the end, 
GNUstep works with files and makefiles, and we need
mechanisms to generate automatically files from high-level structures 
and vice-versa (the former is already doable using DevelopmentKit,
the latter is doable but not as easy... though even something not 
perfect would be a good thing)

In my opinion, PC should stay as it is for the moment, but hopefully 
evolves with bundles; so for example you will add some bundles that 
will let you
work on a higher-level (in the PC browser, not stop at the files, but 
allow browsing "high level structures", eg in case of a class, display 
the list of the
methods, etc.). So basically, add some possible plugs in PC 
architecture to be able to extend it in a proper way, so you can browse 
something
else than a file easily...

Additionally, a must-have would also be able to have other 
representations of your project than the current NSBrowser. For 
example, an UML view..

Basically, I think instead of writing an IDE from scratch, it could be 
a good idea to modify PC and extend it.

--
Nicolas Roard
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