Darren J Moffat wrote: > John Sonnenschein wrote: >> This sounds to me very much like OpenGrok, no ? ( try >> http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate ), except >> opengrok doesn't depend on more software ( netbeans ) > > Nothing like OpenGrok IMO, OpenGrok is read-only. > > NetBeans IDE is a development environment that runs locally on your > machine. With this you can actually edit, build and debug code in many > languages. > > This project is about providing a set of configuration tools so that the > ON source base can be viewed, edited and built in the NetBeans IDE in a > sensible way. There was a demo of this at LOSUG last month and it is > very impressive and will I hope make modifying/learning the ON part of > OpenSolaris much easier for people used to working in an environment > other than emacs/vi/xterm/make/cscope. Correct. The navigation features of the IDE are more powerful than what OpenGrok offers. You see the real power of using the IDE when you for instance hook up a third-party project (a driver for instance) with the ON libraries and the kernel in the IDE and use features like hyperlink navigation an code completion to seamlessly navigate forth and back between your own source code and the source code in libraries and the kernel. It works very well when developing third-party software.
> > I think the choice of project name is actually very unfortunate in that > it doesn't properly explain that. > > I think it also even more unfortunate in that it clashes with a well > known Sun Services tool called explorer that gathers generic system > configuration information for assisting problem diagnosis (and that is > what I though this was going to be about when I saw the email subject > line). > > I'd strongly suggest changing the name to something other than Explorer > for the above reasons. Bill Sommerfeld on tools-discuss raised the same issue. The name may conflict with an existing product and it may not correctly describe the project. We are discussing other names in our group. Thanks for pointing it out. --thomas >
