Descent

[Robert Fraser]

David B. Held Wrote:

> Hey, Descent looks really awesome now!  I can tell you guys have been 
> working hard on it because it's got a full formatter page and 
> everything.  I can even make it use spaces instead of tabs...good work! 
>   I also note that it does something really interesting with templates 
> in the outline view, but I haven't played around with that much.  What I 
> am wondering about are two things:
> 
> 1) Build integration.  I notice a descent.launching package in the 
> source which I assume is for dmd integration, and I notice that on a 
> Java project, I can do Run As...D Application, but I can't do that on my 
> D code!  Very weird!
> 
> 2) DSSS integration.  I'm not sure this totally makes sense or not, but 
> I'd like to hear some thoughts on it.  It would be cool to have 
> something like Create Project from DSource... that would be like Create 
> from SVN...
> 
> Anyway, it's good to see all this project on the plugin, and anyone else 
> who hasn't tried Descent yet, you need to give it a good look now!
> 
> Dave


Thanks!

1) are you in the D perspective? IMO, I think Eclipse should switch perspectives whenever you open a language-specific editor, but we lowly plugin devs can't do too much about it. Background compilation and compiler integration are being worked on now, so expect them in the semi-near future.

2) do a google search for "Subclipse", a SVN client that integrates with eclipse quite nicely. Full DSSS integration is a possibility, but we want to get other stuff like go-to-definition, autocomplete, and import management done first.

Glad you like the plugin!