RE: http://theschemeway.blogspot.com/

["Dominique Boucher" <dominique dot boucher at nuecho dot com>]

Per,

> I'd love to have have good Kawa support in Eclipse, including 
> ultimately source-level Scheme-aware debugging.
> That probably a major project, though I hope we can get there 
> a step at a time.

That would surely be a killer app, IMO. 

> I've tried using Eclipse to develop Kawa, but not seriously.
> Now that Eclipse 3 is out, I'll make another attempt.  
> Maybe I can pick your brain about how to best use Eclipse.

Note that I've used Eclipse for serious work only for the last 2 weeks...
But for Java programming, it is an invaluable tool. I wish I could have
something similar for Scheme/Kawa. That's the philosophy behind my Scheme
plugin: providing serious tools for serious developers. In XEmacs, I have
been able to implement code completion on a project-wide basis, a "jump to
definition" feature, an "organize imports", etc. We can easily do the same
thing in Eclipse, given that we have a sufficiently powerful editor. But my
editor is in good shape now.

> Most definitely, especially if it can be part of a future Scheme IDE.

With the Rich Client Platform, we could package a Scheme IDE based on
Eclipse quite easily (I think). 

The major obstacle right now is providing my code base to the community,
maybe on SourceForge.Net. If I can't  manage to do that, I'll reimplement
everything from scratch (even better).

Dominique