On Apr 11, 2011, at 4:22 AM, Pid wrote: > On 4/11/11 12:54 AM, Felipe Carvalho wrote: >> A webinar or a simple screencast would help a lot on troubleshooting. > > We can't mandate using a particular IDE to develop against the project. > We can make it easier to use different IDEs.
Of course, I was just suggesting rather than mandating what was the easiest route for me in my experience. Eclipse was a bit difficult to get up and running for me personally, but many people use it so it must be supported. > >> Indepent of the IDE, though, I would suggest putting the project under an >> automated build tool structure (Maven, Gradle, whatever) instead of Ant, >> which makes it easier for developers to choose their preferred IDE. > > We have discussed Gradle - given that we're in the Groovy space, that > would be preferable to Maven. > > > p > >> Many IDEs integrate seamless with Maven and Grails projects (NetBeans and >> Intellij are great examples of this) for example, which facilitates for >> developers to switch between IDEs. >> >> One thing I can say about Intellij (I've been working with it for the last 6 >> months) is that it's got the best Groovy integration I've seen among major >> IDEs -- I had tried Eclipse (STS) and NetBeans before. >> >> On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Matthew Sacks >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Hi Folks, >>> I have struggled a bit using Eclipse with Groovy projects previously >>> (although for all intensive purposes it will work) , so I personally >>> recommend using IntelliJ for developing kitty projects as a matter of >>> preference. I'm not sure if you have to be an official committer, but I know >>> Jetbrains, the company that makes IntelliJ offers a special open source use >>> license to the ASF: >>> http://www.jetbrains.com/eforms/openSourceRequestApache.action?licenseRequest=IIOSA >>> >>> That being said, I'd like to throw it out there that maybe it would help >>> the new people on board if we hosted a simple webinar (and recorded it) on >>> how to get all set up to be developing for Kitty and resolve problems >>> getting setup. Would this be helpful? >>> >>> >>> msacks >> > >
