[PD-dev] eclipse + pd

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Nov 20, 2007, at 4:09 AM, mescalinum at gmail.com wrote:

>> I am thinking it's about time that we have a standard profile in a
>> full featured IDE for developing Pd.  I am thinking that Eclipse is
>> the best bet since it runs everywhere, it's free, and it already has
>> C/C++ and Tcl modes.
>>
>> Has anyone worked with Pd+Eclipse at all?  Anyone want to help make a
>> Pd project profile?  I think the key idea would be to make an Eclipse
>> project to allow people to develop their externals wherever they
>> want, but make sure that the code from that project can easily drop
>> into the Pd-extended build system.
>
> I like the idea!!
> but I started to look at Eclipse very recently, still I am a newbie.
> but I've seen IDEs for almost everything running in Eclipse (I'll
> start to look at the Graphical Editing Framework) its plugin API looks
> very powerful
>
> also here at work I see Eclipse is a standard de facto.
>
> hope more devs get interested in this.
> --  
> Federico Ferri

Mostly, I am interested in the debugging and live look-up  
capabilities.  Since Pd is a strange animal, I think it's going to  
take a fair amount of tweaking in Eclipse to get things running  
smoothly.

The first question I have is how hard it is to change the paths to  
make it work with the current layout.

.hc


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