Re: IDE

[Alexis]

Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> writes:

> On 10/14/2015 05:45 AM, Eric Ludlam wrote:
>
> > This is how EDE (a part of CEDET) is setup and works.  There 
> > are "projects", and in projects there are "targets".  There are 
> > project build commands, and target build commands.  Each 
> > project or target can have language specific features for 
> > setting up CEDET's parsers.
>
> Is there a particular reason to have the notion of "target" in 
> the  project API?

i've been wondering this too; in a post to this list in August:

   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-08/msg00278.html

i wrote:

> Eric Ludlam <address@hidden> writes: 
>
> > I'm also interested in how to resolve some of the 
> > misconceptions about EDE. Perhaps looking at what prevents it 
> > from being 'on by default', which I'm sure is a long list, is a 
> > good way to move it in the right direction, even if it never is 
> > on by default. 
>
> Well, say i'm developing a small Perl5 project - one main 
> module, supported by two helper modules, all of which are pure 
> Perl. When i look at the overview of EDE in the Emacs manual: 
>
>    https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/EDE.html 
>
> and read:  
>    A project may contain one or more targets. A target can be an 
>    object file, executable program, or some other type of file, 
>    which is “built” from one or more of the files in the 
>    project. 
>
> i think to myself: "Okay, so EDE might be able to help me build 
> (say) a .tar.gz when i feel the project is ready for release and 
> distribution, but it's not relevant prior to that stage, since 
> the source .pm files /are/ the executable files. There's nothing 
> to 'build' during development and testing, so it seems i have no 
> use for EDE during those phases." 
>
> i would also guess that, similarly, EDE might not be that useful 
> when developing in languages such as ELisp, Python or Ruby. 
>
> Am i wrong? What would using EDE get me in such contexts?


Alexis.