On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 14:33 +0000, Aaron Trevena wrote: > On 16/02/2008, Lars Clausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 08:30 -0600, Mark and Lisa Collins wrote: > > > I am trying to find a developer, for hire, that would be interesting > > > in building Dia in Java with some modifications. Can you point me to > > > someone who might eb interested? > > > > I have been thinking that that would be the way to go; IDEs for Java are > > a lot better than for C. I just so happen to have a company that does > > programming contracting, so please let me know what you're thinking of, > > and I'll see what we can figure out. > > No - that isn't the way to go. > > Java doesn't work with any of the native *nix toolkits or desktops,
Wrong: There is java-gnome (http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net/4.0/) and GtJava/KDEJava (http://developer.kde.org/language-bindings/java/). > doesn't integrate with other languages, Not sure what to make of this -- C doesn't integrate much either. Actually a number of languages can be compiled to Java bytecode. > and can be a real pig to install and run. Unlike the automake/autoconf system, which never gives us any trouble at all. I've seen easy-to-install Java programs and bitch-to-install C programs. > All the huge amount of grief involved in java isn't worth being able > to use a couple of Eclipse functions. It's not just a couple of Eclipse functions. It's the fact that the IDE actually supports what I want to do: Finding usages, moving and renaming, extracting methods, noticing dangerous practices, helping write API docs, and numerous other things. After 4 1/2 years using IntelliJ, I feel crippled when I move back to Emacs. Not that I can't use what Emacs gives me (and add more myself), but there's a world of difference between the two. And C is just not structured enough to allow that level of support. -Lars _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia
