Forum OpenACS Development: Re: Developmnet tools, debuggers, IDEs, etc

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27: Re: Developmnet tools, debuggers, IDEs, etc (response to 1)
Posted by Rafael Calvo on 03/31/04 09:00 AM
Jay
I think having more/better development tools is really important. Emacs does a good job but it is not as good as the tools that come with commercial application frameworks.

The work by Jun with Eclipse:
https://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=156811

had mixed results (too slow), but it would be a great way to go.

I will also have a student looking into using argoUML to generate acs_types and generate OACS code with a modelling tool. It would be great ... but it is ages away.

cheers

Rafael

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29: Re: Developmnet tools, debuggers, IDEs, etc (response to 27)
Posted by Talli Somekh on 03/31/04 05:02 PM
Rafael,

there was a little chatting in #openacs on irc about CEDET. Perhaps CEDET + oacs.el would be a more complete IDE solution?

talli

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30: Re: Developmnet tools, debuggers, IDEs, etc (response to 29)
Posted by Bart Teeuwisse on 03/31/04 08:19 PM
Talli,

could you provide a link to the #openacs log discussing CEDET? OpenACS search is failing me. Anyhow, Emacs OACS already works with speedbar. Install speedbar and you can browse SQL functions or TCL procedures w/ speedbar.

Speedbar is not required. An index to function/procedure definitions is already available from the Index menu using stock Emacs OACS.

I personally lack the time to investigate integration with CEDET or any of the other EMACS programmer utilities (http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/CategoryProgrammerUtils) such as the Emacs Code Browser (http://ecb.sourceforge.net/). All Lisp hacker contributions are welcome. Just mirror the GNU Archive of Emacs OACS (see http://www.thecodemill.biz/services//oacs/) and hack at it!

/Bart