From: Michael Neumann <neumann@...>
Date: 2001-12-23T20:33:56+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29355] Re: [ANN] The FreeRIDE (Ruby IDE) Project has Moved.

Phlip wrote:
> Curt Hibbs sez:
> 
> > The FreeRIDE project now has a dedicated web site set up
> > at: http://www.rubyide.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl
> 
> And now my admonition to the FreeRIDE effort...
> 
>  - don't suck.
> 
>  - Ruby doesn't suck, so you have a good head start
> 
>  - don't depend on every open source project on the planet
> 
>  - do depend on a healthy spread of versions of a very narrow
>    set of libraries
> 
>  - do run instantly, without setup.rb, after I expand the tarball
> 
>  - don't write a UI that only works if I know how it works
> 
>  - don't make me put my hand on the mouse
> 
>  - in short, don't clone KDevelop

  - please develop it with a toolkit available for UNIX (and Windows) 

-- 
Michael Neumann
merlin.zwo InfoDesign GmbH
http://www.merlin-zwo.de