RE: [FR-devel] After RubyConf...

[Rich Kilmer]

Hey Hal (et al)

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> [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Curt Hibbs
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 10:37 PM
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> Subject: RE: [FR-devel] After RubyConf...
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> 
> Hal E. Fulton wrote:
> >
> > Hello, team...
> >
> > I'd like to congratulate all of you
> > who have contributed to this project,
> > principally Curt Hibbs, Rich Kilmer,
> > and Nishio Mizuho.
> 
> Also, Laurent Julliard was carried the FreeRIDE "ball" all by 
> himself for many months of development.

Yes...Laurent is a major contributor here :-)
> 
> > The new wiki looks great, by the way.
> 
> Thanks.

I absolutely agree!

> 
> > I'd also like to encourage all of you
> > to preserve your momentum. Let's not
> > rest on our laurels once the RubyConf
> > is over.
> 
> We're hoping that Rich's presentation at the conference will 
> inspire more developer's to begin active development of 
> plugins for FreeRIDE.
> 
> > And I promise that I will move FR up
> > on my to-do list. :)
> 
> Great!
> 
> > In connection with this, I have some
> > questions:
> >
> > 1. Are we putting FR on hold until
> > wxRuby is mature? If so, my comments
> > above may not hold.
> 
> Absolutely not! Only internationalization is waiting on wxRuby.

The goal is to have GUI-based plugins written in Fox, but they should be
pretty easy to port to Wx (depending on what they are doing).  Non-gui
plugins have no issue either way...so active development is encouraged!

> 
> > 2. What is the Next Big Thing in FreeRIDE?
> > I know what I'd vote for -- pair programming
> > support. That could help the project be more "self-bootstrapping." 
> > Imagine using FR 0.6 to work on FR 0.7 -- and pairing with someone
> > a thousand miles away. Ahhhh.... :)
> 
> Now that the basics are in place I think that each developer 
> can work on the areas that interest them most. Of course if 
> someone doesn't have a pet project in mind, I'm sure the rest 
> of us can make suggestions on what we think is most needed.
> 
> I'll bet that Rich's Jabber implementation could be leveraged 
> for remote pair programming.

I do believe we could do some cool stuff with Jabber.  We need to get
events working from the plugins (like the editor).  

What I really want to get working is a generalized project manager
(mostly non-gui with a GUI "browser" and "continuous version control" on
the local machine.  Oh...and CVS integration.

> 
> > 3. What is *my* upcoming role in this?
> > I can be looking at editor API issues or
> > scripting project issues. (Will we still
> > use Scintilla once we convert to wxRuby?)
> 
> We will always be using scintilla -- we're going to have to 
> make a wxScintilla to go along with wxRuby.
> 
> Curt
> 
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