From: Rich Kilmer <rich@...>
Date: 2002-12-03T01:57:43+09:00
Subject: Re: FreeRIDE Status



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shannon Fang [mailto:xrfang@hotmail.com] 
> Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 11:52 AM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: FreeRIDE Status
> 
> 
> Hi Curt,
> 
> I am interested if FreeRIDE will integrate "Form Design", to 
> make it a 
> full-blown IDE? Or only source-level debuging is planed? What 
> can I expect 
> to see in FreeRIDE, which might be better than RDE?
> 
> Thanks a lot.
> Shannon
> 

FreeRIDE is plugin based, so something like form design will be
integrated as a plugin to the IDE.  Right now we are getting basic
functionality completed.  We are planning a powerful project manager as
well (with jabber integration :-).  As for major differences from
RDE...not much in the initial alpha/beta...but that will change quickly.
Most importantly, FreeRIDE is written in Ruby so its extensible in
Ruby...RDE is not.