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

[Curt Hibbs]

Laurent Julliard wrote:
>
> There are plenty of things to be done:
>
> - Integration of the source code browser (I think Rich is working on it)
> - Version Control integration (CVS to start with I guess)
> - Pair programming is another one
> - We should also spend time on the notion of 'projects'. Right now we
> only work on individual files and we have no notion of these files
> beloging to the same project.
> - In the same vein, we should decided on a packaging and delivering
> mechanism for the Ruby software developed with FR. There are a couple
> of initiatives in the Ruby community but no one spent time to assess
> the value of these efforts and how to integrate them in FR.
> - On-line help (including RDOC). I think Bob Calco in working on it
> but the 2 of you may be even better than one.

I think Rich wanted to do the project support.

> > 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?)
> >
>
> The editor API is an option but I don;t think it won't help 'conquer'
> the Ruby community. My position on this is that we are after
> 'functionalitites' to start with to attract the Ruby users. This is
> exactly what we are doing right now. FR has been developed by leaps
> and bonds with new features and then 4 months after Rich came and did
> some refactoring. I think we are now ready for a second run of 'let's
> throw new features in it' and in 3 months from now we'll do another
> refactoring round. At that time we'll probably have a better idea of
> what the editor API is.
>
> Rich, Curt and others may have a different view here. And may be Rich
> recent refactoring makes it clearer what the editor API has to be.
>
> Laurent

Laurent, I think you forgot that you and I share the same brain -- of course
I agree with everything you said :-)

Curt