Re: [ jEdit-devel ] Java plugins status

[Alan E. <ala...@gm...>]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Gerard Smyth <ger...@gm...> wrote:
> Thanks for the pointers.
>
> As it looks like no one is working on JCompiler, I will have a go at getting
> this to work with the project based settings.

That would be much appreciated!


> I appreciate that the console plugin allows you to easily run java and ant
> etc, but the benefit of my existing setup is that it automatically figures
> out the classpath/ant build file etc based on the project the current file
> is in.
>
> As far as I can see, AntHelper offered project management type
> functionality, which duplicates a lot of what the ProjectViewer plugin
> provides.  I think it makes sense to use ProjectViewer going forward, but
> maybe add some project based functions to AntFarm??

You mean AntHelper I suppose? In any case, both plugins could use a
new maintainer. Nobody has touched AntHelper in ages - you can take
over maintenance of that.

> Maybe I can look at this if I get JCompiler working as I'd like?

That would be great!

I am also hoping someone will update JImporter to use JavaSideKick/PV,
or add the the "insert import for class under caret" action to
JavaSideKick.