[Bf-taskforce25] Netbeans + Blender Source (was: Complete Rewrite)

[Jonathan Merritt]

Hi Campbell,

On 22/03/2009, at 2:53 PM, Campbell Barton wrote:
> Though I have been using Netbeans recently (and eclipse before that)
> with (Sun's JVM with hotspot), and I get quite frequent hangs due to
> garbage collection and weired errors that leave me wondering weather
> the applications internal state is messed up or not...
> And Netbeans is from sun who wrote java!
> - So Im quite happy not to be tried to java with its sluggish jvm.


It sounds like you might really benefit from reporting some of those  
Netbeans bugs! :-P  Btw: Netbeans is mainly developed by Sun  
employees, but it's an Open Source project.

To get this discussion back on the Blender track:

Are you using Netbeans for Blender source (via the C/C++ plugin)?  If  
so, I'd be interested to hear how you've set the project up.  I think  
it would be useful for a lot of people to be able to make greater use  
of IDE features (not just Netbeans) on Blender code.

In the past (a few years ago now), I tried using KDevelop on both  
Blender and Aqsis.  The main problem I found was that KDevelop wanted  
to control everything (the build system, etc.), and it seemed to be  
very difficult to enable things like interactive debugging in the IDE  
while still using the normal (i.e. external-to-the-IDE) build  
processes.  If you have found a way to do this kind of thing using  
Netbeans then I'd be very interested in helping to write it up.  It  
would be great if new Blender developers could explore the code base  
more easily using an IDE and features like interactive debugging! :-)

Jonathan Merritt.