[MonoDevelop] Planning MonoDevelop 1.0

Lluis Sanchez lluis at ximian.com
Thu Nov 23 06:53:31 EST 2006


El dj 23 de 11 del 2006 a les 00:54 +0100, en/na "Andrés G. Aragoneses
[ knocte ]" va escriure:
> Hi! This is great news for MD!
> 
> Here goes mi opinion:
> 
> Lluis Sanchez escribió:
> > [...]
> >       * Debugger: I know a lot of people will ask for this, but I fear
> >         the debugger won't be ready by our code freeze date. We can
> >         release it later on as a separate add-in.
> 
> I also think that this is going to be the most requested feature.
> 
> 
> > 
> >       * Text editor: There are several requests/issues to solve: 
> >               * Parameter completion: after typing the name of a method,
> >                 show a popup window with information about the
> >                 parameters the method takes. 
> 
> This is very interesting, but I noted you didn't mention about
> supporting overloading?

Yes, overloading would also be supported.

> 
> 
> >       * VS importer: Ankit is working on supporting VS2005 files right
> >         now. The idea is that you can open VS files directly in MD and
> >         work with those projects like if they were native projects. It
> >         will support writing changes such as adding files or modifying
> >         the project configuration. Ideally, we should do the same for
> >         VS2003 (right now it only supports importing for VS2003
> >         projects).
> 
> This is great too.
> 
> 
> >       * ASP.NET support: I don't know if this add-in can be mature
> >         enough for the 1.0 release. I'll need input on that (which
> >         features could we release? would the add-in be really useful for
> >         real world web projects?).
> 
> What about creating WebService projects?
> 
> >       * GTK# designer: There are several features to be implemented in
> >         the designer before the release: 
> >               * Support partial classes when generating code. 
> >               * Support for Undo/Redo. 
> 
> I like this two too. And what about l10n+stetic?

There is already some support for l10n. If your project is referencing
Mono.Posix stetic will generate all translatable strings using
GettextCatalog.GetString().

> 
> 
> >       * Version Control: I recently integrated some of the changes done
> >         for the Google SoC project and improved it a lot. Support for
> >         SVN is mostly functional. What's missing is support for CVS. It
> >         would be nice to have for MD 1.0.
> 
> I'm trying this addin these days and I am always getting an exception
> with the simplest operation: svn update. Should I file a bug or wait
> until more stability?

Update from SVN, and if it still fails for you, please file a bug
report.

> 
> 
> >       * Welcome page: It looks ok to me.
> 
> What about the patch that was posted some time ago to be able to
> localize this addin with Xslt arguments?

It can probably go in.

> 
> 
> >       * Web references: I'd like to integrate the web references add-in
> >         implemented by Gideon de Swardt. The only problem I see is that
> >         it only supports .NET 2.0 projects. It would be nice to make it
> >         work for 1.1 as well.
> 
> I also think this is a must for a 1.0.
> 
> 
> >       * Xml editor: It's being maintained outside of MD, so nothing to
> >         add. Just to make sure it works when we release 1.0.
> 
> Could it be added to the main release of MD although it's not in SVN?

I can take a look at it.

> 
> 
> >       * Autotools: There are several features I'd like to support for MD
> >         1.0: 
> >               * Support integration with existing Makefiles. That is, if
> >                 somebody has a project with complex build rules which
> >                 can't be emulated by MD, just make it possible to
> >                 delegate the entire build process to Make, and still be
> >                 able to launch the build from inside MD. About modifying
> >                 the Makefile in MD, I think supporting adding/removing
> >                 files would be enough for now. 
> >               * We need to find a solution for file templates (.in
> >                 files). MD uses some of them. We need to support them in
> >                 the MD build model if we want to be able to completely
> >                 build MD using MD. 
> >               * There may be other missing features needed for
> >                 self-hosting MD. 
> 
> I suppose that this last one would be the best to attract contributors
> to MD, besides users.
> 
> Thanks for all the updated info about MD!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 	Andrés	[ knocte ]
> 
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