Re: [Caml-list] New Ocaml Plug-in for NetBeans

[hmf@inescporto.pt]

Hi Richard,

Richard Jones wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 12:56:26AM +0100, Jon Harrop wrote:
>> On Wednesday 23 July 2008 09:50:03 adonis28850 wrote:
>>> thanks Hugo, i know there's a Eclipse plug-in, but i would like to get it
>>> on NetBeans,so if someone could help i will thanks!
>> If I might stick my oar in: why don't the OCaml community write an IDE for
>> OCaml in OCaml using Camlp4 for parsing with throwback and LablGTK for the
>> GUI?
>
> I'm sure you know why, but because (a) it's a huge amount of work and
> (b) the sort of people who can do the work already use emacs so they
> don't need it.
>
> It'd be better to concentrate on OCaml for Eclipse (& other IDEs).
> OCaml has the parts already to make an excellent Eclipse plugin -- eg.
> camlp4, ocamldoc, cmigrep and '-dtypes/.annot'.  If Eclipse itself has
> specific problems, then fix those.
>
> Red Hat have done a bit of work packaging and fixing the OCaml Eclipse
> plugin and we'll have something to release soon(~ish).
>

Just curious: when you say "fixing" do you mean changing the actual
code? If so, are these contributed back to the community or do I
have to change to Fedora to get them ? 8-).

Thanks,
HF.

> Rich.
>