Move VisualD to github/d-programming-language ?

[Regan Heath]

On Sat, 07 Sep 2013 23:35:47 +0100, Paulo Pinto <pjmlp at progtools.org>  
wrote:

> Am 07.09.2013 23:57, schrieb Ramon:> On Saturday, 7 September 2013 at  
> 20:02:37 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>  >> Am 07.09.2013 21:55, schrieb Peter Alexander:
>  >>> On Saturday, 7 September 2013 at 19:39:21 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
>  >>>> Sadly, Visual Studio is a huge player in the game. Make the
>  >>>> connection :-)
>  >>>
>  >>> Why sadly? It's a fantastic product.
>  >>
>  >> The only thing I don't like is the reliance on Visual Assist and
>  >> ReSharper for refactoring features that other IDEs offer out of the  
> box.
>  >>
>  >> --
>  >> Paulo
>  >
>  > I'm both pro and against it.
>  >
>  > Pro because VisualD seems to be (Pardon me, I don't work on Windoze  
> and
>  > didn't work with it but trust Windoze D users opinion on that) an
>  > excellent solution and supporting nicely what seems to be *the* IDE in
>  > Windoze world.
>  >
>  > Against because we need a solution for *all* major platforms (Lx32,
>  > Lx64, *BSD, apple, w32,w64) and I'm worried that this resolution here
>  > might lead to a "So, we *do* have an IDE. Case closed" attitude.
>  >
>  > Kudos anyway to Rainer though for his important work.
>  >
>  > A+ -R
>
> Well, if you want a production quality multi-platform IDE the only  
> options are InteliJ and Eclipse, both of which are not that well  
> received by most C and C++ guys. The target audience for D.

Eclipse is dreadful.  I hate it with a passion.

> That is my humble opinion, regarding the type of tooling I expect from
> an IDE.

My solution: Do all development on windows, commit, update on build  
machine, rinse and repeat ...  that said, I haven't had to do fully cross  
platform work for at least 7 years.

R

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