• Ary Borenszweig (28/28) Nov 04 2007 The Descent plugin for Eclipse provides an IDE for writing, launching
• torhu (1/1) Nov 04 2007 Cool! Any chance of a zip download, for offline installation?
• Robert Fraser (3/4) Nov 04 2007 The best way to do this is download the contents of trunk/descent.update...
• torhu (3/10) Nov 05 2007 I use svn all the time, so it's not at big deal. It was more of a
• Robert Fraser (2/9) Nov 04 2007 I'd just like to add here that you can add directories for any library. ...
• Hendrik Renken (2/5) Nov 05 2007 Thx! This is a really good news :) The import completion was the feature...

Ary Borenszweig <ary esperanto.org.ar> writes:

The Descent plugin for Eclipse provides an IDE for writing, launching 
and debugging code in D.

Explanations on how to get it from within Eclipse are here:

http://www.dsource.org/projects/descent

The new features for this release are:
- completion for keywords, like public, import, module, abstract, 
__traits, etc.
- completion for imports *
- completion for special locations, like scope, extern, version and __traits
- completion for ddoc sections and macros
- completion for gotos, continues and breaks
- completion for type properties, like "int.sizeof"
- suggestions for function arguments names
- formatting of two-dimensional arrays is now nicer
- some bug fixes and improvements

This doesn't seem a lot, but we're mainly focusing on porting DMD's 
front end to Java. It's almost done, only about 160 tests from over 4000 
fail. We still can't enable it for release, because the way it's done 
now is very poor in performance: imports are processed by reparsing the 
files. But we'll make this better, and then all the other goodies will 
make it into the project.

* Import completions are suggested for referenced projects and the 
standard library. You can configure the standard library in Windows -> 
Preferences -> D -> Installed Compilers. Click "Add", select a directory 
which contains "bin/dmd.exe" (for DMD) or "bin/gdc.exe" (for GDC) and 
then add other directories you wish to have in the import completions. 
In that way you can have suggestions for Tango, if you don't use Phobos, 
or any other library you usually use.

torhu <no spam.invalid> writes:

Cool!  Any chance of a zip download, for offline installation?

Robert Fraser <fraserofthenight gmail.com> writes:

torhu Wrote:

 Cool!  Any chance of a zip download, for offline installation?

The best way to do this is download the contents of trunk/descent.update-site
and zip that up. Then in Eclipse under Help > Software Updates > Find and
Install, select "Add new Local Update Site" (or something like that) and add
the folder where you put the contents of the directory.

If you want a zip instead of having to muck about with SVN, I can put one up.

torhu <no spam.invalid> writes:

Robert Fraser wrote:
 torhu Wrote:
 
 Cool!  Any chance of a zip download, for offline installation?

 
 The best way to do this is download the contents of trunk/descent.update-site
and zip that up. Then in Eclipse under Help > Software Updates > Find and
Install, select "Add new Local Update Site" (or something like that) and add
the folder where you put the contents of the directory.
 
 If you want a zip instead of having to muck about with SVN, I can put one up.

I use svn all the time, so it's not at big deal.  It was more of a 
general suggestion. :)

Robert Fraser <fraserofthenight gmail.com> writes:

Ary Borenszweig Wrote:

 * Import completions are suggested for referenced projects and the 
 standard library. You can configure the standard library in Windows -> 
 Preferences -> D -> Installed Compilers. Click "Add", select a directory 
 which contains "bin/dmd.exe" (for DMD) or "bin/gdc.exe" (for GDC) and 
 then add other directories you wish to have in the import completions. 
 In that way you can have suggestions for Tango, if you don't use Phobos, 
 or any other library you usually use.

I'd just like to add here that you can add directories for any library. So you
can get completion on any library used in your project, plus other modules _in_
the project and referenced projects.

Hendrik Renken <funsheep gmx.net> writes:

 This doesn't seem a lot, but we're mainly focusing on porting DMD's 
 front end to Java. It's almost done, only about 160 tests from over 4000 
 fail. 

Thx! This is a really good news :) The import completion was the feature 
i missed most.