Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like

[Trey Jackson]

On Jan 5, 2008 6:30 AM, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:

gud.el was the beginning of an Emacs IDE.
Nick Roberts has greatly extended its capabilities
in Emacs 22.  What more should we add?

The graphical improvements to GUD are nice, but as far as I can see, the new features are limited to viewing GUD data.
The other things that could be added are being discussed, and I thought I'd listed a couple of possibilities.

project management (files & build)
bug tracking (see the other threads)
task management (
planner.el, todo-mode, etc.)
code browsing (yes, it exists, but as add-ons)
manage window configurations (Eclipse calls them perspectives)
integrating profiling tools - and analyzing the results


An IDE can be so much more than a debugger.
And, yes, Emacs can run make, launch the application, debug the application, send email.
But an organization of those capabilities (and more) might lead to something greater than the sum of the parts.

Again, I'm only suggesting to think about such items, and if the emacs developers would see pieces that are useful to themselves, then do it.  I think someone who develops software tools s/he doesn't use her/himself leads to useless tools.


TJ

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Trey Jackson
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