Comments on: Anjuta 2.4

By: Naba Kumar

Naba Kumar — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:54:46 +0000

Hi Johannes, Very nice write up. Thanks and you rock

By: Ray

Ray — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:11:39 +0000

It’d be cool to see Anjuta also have optional support for the ZeroBUGS debugger (http://www.zero-bugs.com/) along side GDB.

By: jhs

jhs — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:31:41 +0000

@rainouts: What would you propose instead of gthe close button? There is no other way to hide the search bar (which is no toolbar in the technical sense).

By: reinouts

reinouts — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:24:19 +0000

Arggh! Close buttons do NOT belong on toolbars, whether the Mozilla guys do it or not. We just got this fixed in Yelp, now Anjuta comes along with this nonsense.

By: Miguel de Icaza

Miguel de Icaza — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:51:31 +0000

Update: as it turns out, for some reason we never used the unmanaged Gdl, someone ported that code to C# from the start. Michael Hutchinson provided some of the feedback.

Over the years there were a few issues with this port, I quote Michael:

“1. It was GPL, because it was forked before GDL was relicensed; 2. there were some issues related to crashing with certain styles due to the way it used the style object; 3. it wasn’t easily possible to implement autohide; 4. and because the pads were grouped using a GTK notebook, there was a border that we were unable to remove, and we wanted to reduce dead space in the layout. So there were a whole bunch of reasons, basically”

As to why we ported Gdl initially, it is going to be hard to track that down as Todd who seems to be the author has long left the project.

Miguel

By: Miguel de Icaza

Miguel de Icaza — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:32:59 +0000

Hello,

Correct, we did rewrite a number of libraries that used to be written in C in C# because it gave us more agility and allowed us to quickly fix bugs, fine-tune the IDE and get the desired user experience that we were looking for.

Miguel.

By: jhs

jhs — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:44:33 +0000

@Rui:
It’s not the problem of the language. They could have used gdl (written in C) in MonoDevelop but for some reason they decided to rewrite the whole library in C#.

By: Rui

Rui — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:56:50 +0000

[hit the Submit button too soon]

Obviously you’d have to load the python runtime onto the C app. I think that would still leave out the use of a C# widget on a python app… This balkanisation surely isn’t good

By: Rui

Rui — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:51:06 +0000

> (which would actually share a lot of code with anjuta in case they hadn’t rewritten all the libraries in C#)

Can the gobject introspection work help with this? I mean, woulnd’t it enable us to use a widget written in python inside a C app?

By: Miguel de Icaza

Miguel de Icaza — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:29:47 +0000

Fantastic update on Anjuta!

I wish people blogged more frequently about it, as it does not get all the exposure that it deserves.

Miguel.