Re: [Arx-users] Reasons not to switch to ArX

[Kevin Smith]

address@hidden wrote:
> I hope to be contributing to ArX soon, as I am starting to get more and
> more free time.

Excellent!

> Regarding the win32 port, the gui and eclipse plugin. There might be a way
> to catch all the birds with one stone :
> I will give it a look in the coming days, but would welcome any help ;-).

I would be happy to provide guidance, answer questions, and test the 
results. Sorry I can't commit to more than that right now.

I agree that a simple eclipse plugin shouldn't be too hard. The real 
challenge will be supporting refactoring! Perhaps the svn eclipse plugin 
folks have already started working on that?

> The qt gui is an interesting perspective as well.
> I have been dreaming on giving qt a try, and it sounds like a nice 
> opportunity.

I have never liked Qt much, but now that they have released a Windows 
version under the GPL, I wouldn't object to its use. For most GUI apps, 
I would rather write them in Ruby than C++. Python would be another good 
choice. However, I definitely would not discourage the creation of a 
good tool in C++ if that's your language of choice.

> And one thing as I am at it:
> I find the documentation a little difficult to comprehend the first time.
> I started a document that could qualify as a nutshell answering very basic
> question that one asks himself the firt time (or coming back after long
> vacations :-).
> Is anybody interested in adding some more beef to it and publish it ?

I would love to see it. Perhaps we could at least link to it from the 
ArX home page, or even host it there.

A wiki would be great to make it easy for all of us to contribute.

Kevin