From: Daniel Berger <djberge@...>
Date: 2002-10-24T23:50:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Weekly News

"Hal E. Fulton" wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daniel Berger" <djberge@qwest.com>
> To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 4:55 PM
> Subject: Re: Ruby Weekly News
>
> > Michael Campbell wrote:
> >
> > > > >    Ruby Weekly News: 10/20/2002
> > > > >
> > > > >    RDE0.9.8.0
> > > > >           RDEO is an IDE for Ruby on Win32 systems.
> > > >
> > > > That's just RDE, not RDEO.
> > >
> > > out of curiosity, is anyone working on the eclipse plugin for Ruby?
> > > That seems a good use of time rather than re-inventing a whole
> > > IDE...again.  Or does RDE (et. al.) provide some functionality that
> > > eclipse cannot?
> >
> > Yes.  You can find info at http://rubyeclipse.sourceforge.net
> >
> > I'm running it now in Solaris.  I haven't gotten the debugging stuff to
> work right yet, but
> > it's still nice as an editor and project management tool.
>
> FYI, Curt Hibbs was originally an Eclipse enthusiast...
> well, I guess he still is.
>
> What I mean is that the RIDE project was originally to be
> based on Eclipse. But that was abandoned and Curt's ideas
> were merged with Rich Kilmer's (and some others') to
> form the FreeRIDE project. Most recently, Nishio Mizuho's
> class browser has been added to FR.
>
> I'm not opposed to other projects at all. But I do think
> they need to be aware of each other, just as e.g. rubynet
> and rpkg need to know about each other, or rdoc and rd.
> I.e., for possible joining, cancellation, synergy,
> complementarity, stealing ideas, whatever.
>
> For me, my money is on FreeRIDE. I like the ideas that
> the team has and the overall philosophy. And I like the
> furious rapidity with which Rich codes. Say that three
> times fast. Boy, I'm tired. And hungry.
>
> Hal

Oh, I think FreeRIDE will eventually be awesome.  But as the saying goes, a
bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. :)

Regards,

Dan