Re: Programming environment + kawa question

[Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>]

Dominique Boucher wrote:

> 1) What kind of programming environment do you use when developing Kawa
> code? Personally, I use XEmacs with a number of packages I have
> developed over the years. Are there some more Kawa-friendly environments
> I don't know and should be aware of? I'm trying to convince my
> colleagues to take a look at Scheme, so an Emacs replacement would be
> nice (for them, not for me ;-).

I just use XEmacs.

I've taken a look at Eclipse, mainly for developing Kawa itself.
It would be nice to have a "Kawa plugin" for Eclipse, but of course
that's a non-trivial project.  However, something useful (like setting
breakpoints in compiled Scheme code) might not be mush work.

We need to get somebody who knows Eclipse internals excited about Kawa!

> 2) I am currently developing a wrapper around the Kawa compiler. It
> directly calls 'kawa.lang.CompileFile.compile_to_files'. It works great,
> except for one thing. When there is an internal error (like trying to
> open an undefined class), the 'compile_to_files' method prints the stack
> trace and calls System.exit(-1). So my wrapper also aborts. That's
> really annoying. Can this be changed?

The big piece of Kawa development I'm currently struggling with is
supporting mutually referential modules, focusing on XQuery.  In my
working code compile_to_files is gone, because I need to interleave
compiling a set of modules.

So I suggest you just hack the source code somehow for your internal
needs - for example by copying compile_to_files, and don't worry
about a clean or official solution until my module code stabilizes.
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