Re: GNUstep on Mac OS X screenshots

[Nicolas Roard]

On 2004-02-10 13:23:12 +0000 Dr. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@computer.org> 
wrote:

> Pascal J.Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> wrote in message 
> news:<mailman.2153.1076381457.928.discuss-gnustep@gnu.org>...
> > Raffael Herzog writes:
> > > and the .m file to be updated. VisualAge for both Smalltalk and 
> > > Java > 
> > > provide such a view (actually, with those tools, there isn't a 
> > > filesystem 
> > > > at all, the code is stored in an OODBMS).
> >
> > So these  rules should be  user(developer) specified and it  should 
> > be
> > possible to override them.  You cannot just hard code them.
>
>
> Just another idea on that: combine both approaches. Store class
> interface and implementation source codes together with some flags
> (e.g. which other classes they depend on, which system headers to
> include etc.) in a database, so that Class->New, Class->Edit,
> Class->New Method etc. words.
>
> And have an export to a "classical" .m/.h file folder.
>
> And have an import mechanism that tries to do its best guess when
> extracting interfaces and implementatations from existing files (like
> Interface Builder can read .h files to extract the IBOutlets and
> IBActions).

Hm, but wouldn't it be simpler to just store them in files, but 
presenting
the objects instead of the files to the developer ? You could also have
an optional view of the files or something like that.

What I'd really like personally is an integration of Literate 
Programming
directly in the IDE, that is, allows the developer to switch from
Documentation/Code with a single click (and Code is automatically 
updated
in the documentation). It could even be extended to an Aspect 
Programming tool.
(I find some similarities between them ..)

http://www.literateprogramming.com
http://aosd.net/

--
Nicolas Roard