Re: [Pydev-code] Questions (Ant, lint, refactoring)

[Fabio Z. <fa...@gm...>]

Hi Dave,

Let's go one by one:

- Ant: this is a tool that is used to create scripts so that you configure
what you want in a xml file, where each xml declaration points to some
command. It is commonly used to generate builds, compile code, run tests,
etc.

- Lint: it is a tool that analyzes your code for errors (the lint integrate=
d
system that is in pydev is PyLint), it usually finds things such as unused
variables, tokens required but not found, etc.

- Refactoring: It is the process of transforming your code without altering
its semantics. It usually has one objective in mind, such as making the cod=
e
easier to read or making it easier to extend, etc. Refactoring can be done
manually or through a tool (the refactoring tool integrated in pydev is
bycicle repair man, and provides things as extracting a portion of code to
make it a method, renaming a local variable, etc).

Hope it makes sense to you... and good luck on your programming.

Cheers,

Fabio


On 12/16/05, S. D. Rose <s_d...@ho...> wrote:
>
> Hello all.
>   I've searched Google a bit to try and understand what Ant, Lint and
> Refactoring do.  I'm not a progammer, but I'm having fun hacking together
> a
> Python/wxPython  program or two.  I've recently begun using Eclipse 3.1 &
> pydev.
>
>   I don't understand what these do (ant, lint, and refactoring).  I'm
> hoping
> someone can explain their use to me.  What I read on the internet didn't
> have any meaning for me.
>
> Thanks!
> Dave
>
>
>
>
>
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