Request to Authors: Make IDE Open Source?
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| I read an older post by Jay Kyburz who, I think, made a pretty good suggestion. I was going to suggest the same thing. I have just purchased BlitzMax, which I am very excited about. But the IDE leaves much to be desired (I'm coding on a Mac). Would it be practical and desireable for the authors of the BlitzMax IDE to make it open source? Maybe someone out there would turn it into a masterpiece in a relatively short time. I'd like to work with the proper tools for my Blitz development. Thanks for listening. |
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| Something needs to be done about the mac IDE, its woeful. |
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| Hey Johndevoy, I just discovered TextWrangler and I am using that now for my Blitz development. Combined with BlitzBuddy, I also have Blitzmax support (compiling, syntax coloring, help). Check it out here: http://www.simulacrum.net.nz/index.php Use it! Nelson |
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| The current Mac IDE will maybe not be opensourced, but in the spirit of cross platform Max programs written using Max, the Windows/Linux IDE will eventually be ported to Mac - and the source will hopefully be released alongside the MaxGUI module. |
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| Yeah, that's what I was talking about I think. It will be difficult to manage 100's of people all making small improvements to a single IDE. I don't imagine BRL will want to try an manage this and make some peoples improvements official. Does anybody have any experience working on a community project like this? |
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| Personally the only thing I miss in the MAC IDE is the function list, were all functions and types I put in my code are listed. |
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| I think REALbasic has spoiled me. I can no longer live without autocomplete. |
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| It will be difficult to manage 100's of people all making small improvements to a single IDE. It seems to be going relatively smoothly for the modules so far... except for the lack of a Module Archive... |
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