Re: [google-appengine] using Eclipse vs Emacs/Ant/build.xml

2012-05-08 Thread Rick Mangi
+1 On Sunday, May 6, 2012 12:23:48 PM UTC-4, Jeff Schnitzer wrote: For all the reasons that IDEs were invented. As-you-type compilation, refactoring, code completion, integrated debugging... seriously, if you're still writing code in a text editor, you are at *best* 1/3 as productive as

[google-appengine] using Eclipse vs Emacs/Ant/build.xml

2012-05-06 Thread roger
I've successfully deployed YouTube Direct using the default build.xml file, with a few changes for my system, i.e. {sdk.dir} pointing to the directory that contains appengine-java-sdk-1.6.4. I'm using just ant and emacs. I've also installed the GAE plugin for Eclipse, which took quite a few

Re: [google-appengine] using Eclipse vs Emacs/Ant/build.xml

2012-05-06 Thread Jeff Schnitzer
For all the reasons that IDEs were invented. As-you-type compilation, refactoring, code completion, integrated debugging... seriously, if you're still writing code in a text editor, you are at *best* 1/3 as productive as an equivalently competent coder with an IDE. Jeff On Sun, May 6, 2012 at