Re: [DotGNU]'best damned development environment'

[Open Source]

Ant would be an ideal tool for building dotgnu
software.
Emacs - another learning curve
As part of the documentation tools, i recommend 
docbook or doxygen

--- Norbert Bollow <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Some suggestions for this software:
> > -is support for non-GNU absolutely required?
> answer me
> 
> No.  For the development environment, it's good
> enough when it
> runs on GNU/Linux and other variants of the GNU
> system.  With
> other words, we should not worry about making it
> work on other
> systems, but writing code in a reasonably portable
> manner is
> always a good idea, and we'd be happy to accept
> patches that
> help make it work on non-GNU systems.  In fact even
> those parts
> of DotGNU which for strategic reasons we need to
> make work on
> proprietary systems (specifically, this is SEE and
> any browser
> plugins that we might want to create) can mostly be
> developed
> under GNU/Linux.  This should probably be the
> "recommended" way
> for working on developing these things, and much of
> the testing
> can be done with WINE.
> 
> (For these things, we may need help from people who
> are
> experienced in developing for the Microsoft Windows
> platform,
> and the code for these things needs to be portable
> enough that
> it can be compiled and debugged with the tools that
> these
> developers are used to.  So again I don't see an
> absolute need
> for the 'ultimative DotGNU development environment'
> to run on
> the Microsoft Windows platform.)
> 
> >     -NOTE: this may require actually changing
> autoconf and
> > automake, or more likely providing m4 macros that
> deal with
> > cscc, csdoc, pnetlib, and whatever else is
> required.
> 
> I think we should at least offer the option of using
> Ant as a
> build tool.  Maybe it should even be recommended as
> the
> preferred build tool for almost all things DotGNU. 
> (I say
> "almost all", because I think that we must make it
> possible to
> build enough of Portable.NET without using Ant so
> that then Ant
> can be built and run without any dependency on
> anything that is
> not distributed with DotGNU anyway - in particular
> we don't want
> any dependency on a non-free Java platform.)
> 
> >   -an EMACS major mode for linking directly to
> manual spots
> > (hit a function and it looks it up in the standard
> library,
> > then displays that in the info program). Why?
> because writing
> > another text editor to support it would be
> > ridiculous. However, this might not work out, in
> which case,
> > text editor!
> 
> I think this can't be too hard to do in Emacs lisp.
> 
> > -documentation/manual tools, for WYSIWYG writing
> in texinfo
> > format, autogeneration of info
> documentation...this, I
> > believe, is very important, because most free
> software seems
> > to be in constant need of documentation. And I
> want those who
> > will actually produce this to have a nice time
> with it (like me
> > :).
> 
> Yeah... please add this to the DotGNU tasks list: "A
> system that
> makes it fun to collaboratively create documentation
> in texinfo
> format".
> 
> Greetings, Norbert.
> 
> -- 
> A founder of the http://DotGNU.org project and
> Steering Committee member
> Norbert Bollow, Weidlistr.18, CH-8624 Gruet   (near
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