On 20 March 2012 16:07, Christian Manning <cmanning...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday, 20 March 2012 at 13:24:40 UTC, Manu wrote:
>
>> On 20 March 2012 14:34, Christian Manning <cmanning...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  On Monday, 19 March 2012 at 21:18:02 UTC, alex wrote:
>>>
>>>  Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>> It may sounds a bit annoying because I already was asking everywhere in
>>>> the IRC channels but still had no success -
>>>>
>>>> Is there anyone who wants to be my GSoC mentor for the Mono-D project?
>>>>
>>>> In the case you don't know what Mono-D is all about:
>>>> It's about creating a D language binding for MonoDevelop. (
>>>> http://monodevelop.com/****Screenshots<http://monodevelop.com/**Screenshots><
>>>> http://monodevelop.com/**Screenshots<http://monodevelop.com/Screenshots>
>>>> >)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> There are couple of things that are already implemented - like a
>>>> relatively nice but fast code completion, build support, small
>>>> refactoring
>>>> operations like they can be used in every modern IDE and few other
>>>> things
>>>> which will make application development with D a lot easier - especially
>>>> for D newbies.
>>>> (Debugging is also available via gdb on Linux systems - so yeah, why
>>>> not?
>>>> :))
>>>>
>>>> The main road map for this summer of code is available under
>>>> https://github.com/aBothe/****Mono-D/blob/master/****
>>>> MonoDevelop.DBinding/**<https://github.com/aBothe/**Mono-D/blob/master/**MonoDevelop.DBinding/**>
>>>> Remaining%20features.txt<https**://github.com/aBothe/Mono-D/**
>>>> blob/master/MonoDevelop.**DBinding/Remaining%20features.**txt<https://github.com/aBothe/Mono-D/blob/master/MonoDevelop.DBinding/Remaining%20features.txt>
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Surely debugging support on platforms other than linux is much more
>>> important than any of these things you have listed. These things may be
>>> nice, but absolutely unnecessary. Integrated debugging is a must.
>>>
>>>
>> Debugging is great with VisualD in Windows. It's about the only thing
>> VisualD does really well yet, although the rest of the experience is
>> starting to come together. Needs a lot more polish in general.
>>
>
> I actually found myself using Mono-D for the nice completion and VisualD
> for debugging, which is a total pain and probably more effort than its
> worth :)
>

Yes, I can see your motivation though :)
VisualD is starting to show signs of code understanding and
auto-completion. Goto definition has started to work in limited cases...
It's coming along.

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