From: Ross Shaw <rshaw1961@...>
Date: 2001-12-08T21:37:13+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27924] Re: Ruby IDE?? What about using Eclipse??

"Robert Feldt" <feldt@ce.chalmers.se> wrote
> On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Ross Shaw wrote:
>
> > Eclipse (www.eclipse.org) is an open extensible IDE (written in Java)
that
> > IBM has open sourced and is using as the IDE framework for all their
future
> > tooling (Websphere, XML, MQSI etc). It also has some other heavy backers
> > behind it (Borland, Rational, RedHat, SuSE etc).
> >
> > Now I know its written in Java and not Ruby but is anyone interested in
> > writing a Ruby tool plugin for Eclipse. It appears to have some really
cool
> > features built in (CVS integration for instance) so a lot of work would
> > already be done. There is a Java editor implementation that could
probably
> > be used as a starting point for a Ruby editor.
> >
> > Is this doable?
> >
> Probably, its been mentioned 3-4 time on the list the last month.

I'd seen the previous postings - but none of these had subjects included the
word "Eclipse" and I wanted just a thread addressing this topic.


Ross