Fri, 26 Aug 2005
Random idea of the day
I recently read that the PIDA IDE has integrated support for pastebin. This seems like a great idea to me -- I often think about ways to more fully integrate irc into my development experience.
Bots are doing a lot of nice tasks these days -- the CIA bot, bots for talking to bugzilla, and bots for tracking tinderbox results. This all seems to be done piecemeal, every project does it differently.
It might be interesting to run an irc bot inside eclipse and have it automatically integrate different things. The pastebin idea is one -- it could upload code on command and post the URL to the channel of your choice. Another would be to recognize bugzilla references (or perhaps URLs) and show them in the appropriate Eclipse view. Thinking bigger, perhaps ways to share development tasks via irc (or some more suitable, and more secure, IM); say shared debugging, where gdb is running on one person's machine but both developers have a UI showing what is going on.
Eclipse HappeningsThe CDT 3.0 has been released. This is good news, though I've had a bit of trouble getting it to work well on FC4. I think there may be some kind of gdb version clash, but I'm not sure yet. Unfortunately the CDT still has a ways to go before it can catch up to C development tools on other platforms -- e.g., Apple has "fix and continue", but the underlying Linux C tools still don't support this sort of thing. (This is one of the reasons to write in java -- the tools are undeniably better. More on this topic some other day.)
The KDE-Eclipse project looks pretty cool. It seems to provide the long-awaited autoconf plugin.
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