From: Alan Chen <alan@...>
Date: 2001-11-16T07:16:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25344] Re: Refactoring tool for Ruby...

On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 04:13:27AM +0900, Clemens Wyss wrote:
> Jimmy Thrasher wrote:
> 
> > Seems to me that once these Ruby-in-Ruby projects become usable, 
> > especially the ones that generate ASTs, like Rockit, this won't be very 
> > difficult.
> 
> 
> ....although this will allow implementing nice refactoring methods, we 
> are still far from a Ruyb refactoring tool. IMHO a refactoring tool only 
> makes sense in an IDE. Therefore "WE" need to
> a) agree on a platform independent GUI-framework (FX,...)
> b) build a userfriendly IDE
> c) add the follwing features to the IDE:
>    - code-browser
>    - debugger
>    - refactoring
> 
> Have we got a) done?
> ;-)
> 
> Clemens

Is that really true?  The core refactoring capability doesn't have
to have anything to do with an IDE. It could easily be a libray which
is capable of being used on the command line or from a ruby script.
Hmm, maybe we have different ideas re: what  a refactoring tool does.

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