• Ary Borenszweig <ary esperanto.org.ar> May 01 2008
• Hendrik Renken <funsheep gmx.net> May 01 2008
• Graham St Jack <Graham.StJack internode.on.net> May 01 2008
• Ary Borenszweig <ary esperanto.org.ar> May 02 2008
• pragma <eric.t.anderton gmail.com> May 02 2008
• Ary Borenszweig <ary esperanto.org.ar> May 02 2008
• Ary Borenszweig <ary esperanto.org.ar> May 02 2008
• Jason House <jason.james.house gmail.com> May 02 2008
• "Anders Bergh" <anders1 gmail.com> May 10 2008
• Ary Borenszweig <ary esperanto.org.ar> May 15 2008
• Lutger <lutger.blijdestin gmail.com> May 16 2008
• Jason House <jason.james.house gmail.com> May 02 2008
• Jason House <jason.james.house gmail.com> May 06 2008
• BCS <ao pathlink.com> May 15 2008
• BCS <ao pathlink.com> May 19 2008

The Descent plugin for Eclipse provides an IDE for writing, launching 
and debugging code in D.

Explanations on how to get it from within Eclipse are here:

http://www.dsource.org/projects/descent

This is mainly a bugfix/maintenance release. Much care has been taken to 
improve memory usage and speed as well.

However, there are some new features:
  - You can configure each project separatedly.
  - There's the concept of "Active Project": the active version and 
debug identifiers are taken from this project (they are used for greying 
out code and doing semantic resolution).
  - File imports (import("filename") now work. Their lookup path is 
taken from the same paths as the include path. (sorry, I'm lazy for UI 
stuff)
  - Improved semantic coloring.
  - Improved autocompletion.
  - Now op* methods doesn't show in autocompletion, except you explicity 
request them writing anything that start with "op".
  - Improved "go to definition".
  - Improved messages when hovering an identifier.

The previous release was really buggy. I think of it as the answer to 
the question "Can it be done?". This release answers the question "Can 
it be well done?". Obviously, there is still a lot of room for improvement.

By default, semantic errors are turned off. You can still turn them on, 
but this is an experimental feature and probably won't work correctly 
most of the time.

Current Descent users need to close every project, open them again, and 
make a full rebuild in order to get things adapted to the new code. 
Also, if you had any library or compiler configured, you will need to 
delete them and create them again, because their search index is not 
compatible with this version. So maybe the best thing you can do is to 
reinstall the product.

Any suggestion, critic or bug report is welcome. You can use:
- the forums: http://www.dsource.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=107
- trac: http://www.dsource.org/projects/descent/report?action=new
- irc: at freenode, #d.descent

Enjoy!

 Enjoy!


Well, thanks. I already do! YEAH.

On Thu, 01 May 2008 15:06:10 -0300, Ary Borenszweig wrote:

 The Descent plugin for Eclipse provides an IDE for writing, launching
 and debugging code in D.
 
 Explanations on how to get it from within Eclipse are here:
 
 http://www.dsource.org/projects/descent
 
 This is mainly a bugfix/maintenance release. Much care has been taken to
 improve memory usage and speed as well.
 
 However, there are some new features:
   - You can configure each project separatedly. - There's the concept of
   "Active Project": the active version and
 debug identifiers are taken from this project (they are used for greying
 out code and doing semantic resolution).
   - File imports (import("filename") now work. Their lookup path is
 taken from the same paths as the include path. (sorry, I'm lazy for UI
 stuff)
   - Improved semantic coloring.
   - Improved autocompletion.
   - Now op* methods doesn't show in autocompletion, except you explicity
 request them writing anything that start with "op".
   - Improved "go to definition".
   - Improved messages when hovering an identifier.
 
 The previous release was really buggy. I think of it as the answer to
 the question "Can it be done?". This release answers the question "Can
 it be well done?". Obviously, there is still a lot of room for
 improvement.
 
 By default, semantic errors are turned off. You can still turn them on,
 but this is an experimental feature and probably won't work correctly
 most of the time.
 
 Current Descent users need to close every project, open them again, and
 make a full rebuild in order to get things adapted to the new code.
 Also, if you had any library or compiler configured, you will need to
 delete them and create them again, because their search index is not
 compatible with this version. So maybe the best thing you can do is to
 reinstall the product.
 
 Any suggestion, critic or bug report is welcome. You can use: - the
 forums: http://www.dsource.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=107 - trac:
 http://www.dsource.org/projects/descent/report?action=new - irc: at
 freenode, #d.descent
 
 Enjoy!


Good stuff!  What are your plans for D2 support?

Graham St Jack wrote:
 On Thu, 01 May 2008 15:06:10 -0300, Ary Borenszweig wrote:
 Enjoy!


 Good stuff!  What are your plans for D2 support?


Maybe for the next release... It's just about porting DMD's code. If I 
do that in a rush, it gets boring, so I try to do that from time to 
time. Robert can agree with me. :-)

Ary Borenszweig wrote:
 Graham St Jack wrote:
 On Thu, 01 May 2008 15:06:10 -0300, Ary Borenszweig wrote:
 Enjoy!


 Good stuff!  What are your plans for D2 support?


 Maybe for the next release... It's just about porting DMD's code. If I 
 do that in a rush, it gets boring, so I try to do that from time to 
 time. Robert can agree with me. :-)


Out of curiosity: why not library-ize the DMD front-end and distribute 
it along with a JNI wrapper?

It would take some work to get it properly wrapped and ported to your 
target platforms (especially to OSX since there are few D'ers on that 
platform), but the end result would keep you from having to trail 
compiler releases and bug updates by a full porting cycle.  Also, at 
least where Eclipse is concerned, OSGi has your back with making sure 
that the right binary lib is used for JNI.

Just thinking out loud,
- Pragma

pragma escribió:
 Ary Borenszweig wrote:
 Graham St Jack wrote:
 On Thu, 01 May 2008 15:06:10 -0300, Ary Borenszweig wrote:
 Enjoy!


 Good stuff!  What are your plans for D2 support?


 Maybe for the next release... It's just about porting DMD's code. If I 
 do that in a rush, it gets boring, so I try to do that from time to 
 time. Robert can agree with me. :-)


 Out of curiosity: why not library-ize the DMD front-end and distribute 
 it along with a JNI wrapper?
 
 It would take some work to get it properly wrapped and ported to your 
 target platforms (especially to OSX since there are few D'ers on that 
 platform), but the end result would keep you from having to trail 
 compiler releases and bug updates by a full porting cycle.  Also, at 
 least where Eclipse is concerned, OSGi has your back with making sure 
 that the right binary lib is used for JNI.
 
 Just thinking out loud,
 - Pragma


We thought of that, but I think it's harder to do than the current 
approach. The code from DMD was changed in a lot of ways: source range 
information has been added to nodes, the visitor pattern has been 
applied, the problem reporting is different, some char[] handling 
optimizations added. In the end, it will be like programming in C++. 
And... C++ doesn't have *good* refactoring support, find all references, 
autocompletion, etc. And also, a build of the JNI wrapper must be done, 
and programing in JNI is not fun: creating an instance of a class or 
calling a method is terribly verbose and error-prone, specially if you 
rename/move a class used by JNI.

And now, it's not hard to update: just diff and port the differences. 
The hardest part was the beginning, when we had to figure out how to 
translate gotos, passing by reference, etc. :-)

I've uploaded some short videos in my YouTube account that show some of 
Descent's features. I'll upload more as time goes by.

http://www.youtube.com/asterite

Ary Borenszweig wrote:
 The Descent plugin for Eclipse provides an IDE for writing, launching 
 and debugging code in D.

Ary Borenszweig Wrote:

 I've uploaded some short videos in my YouTube account that show some of 
 Descent's features. I'll upload more as time goes by.
 
 http://www.youtube.com/asterite


Is it possible to make the videos iPhone compatible?
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/the-complete-guide-to-ipod-video-formats-and-display-resolutions/

In the past, ffmpeg was a painless way of doing conversions.  I know there are
ubuntu packages for it when the right source is enabled.

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Ary Borenszweig <ary esperanto.org.ar> wrote:
 I've uploaded some short videos in my YouTube account that show some of
 Descent's features. I'll upload more as time goes by.

 http://www.youtube.com/asterite

 Ary Borenszweig wrote:
 The Descent plugin for Eclipse provides an IDE for writing, launching and
 debugging code in D.




In case anyone wants higher quality versions of the videos, add
&fmt=18 to the video URL. For some reason YouTube didn't show me the
usual "watch this in high definition", but using this made the text a
lot easier to read.

Anders

Here's another video of a feature that will probably be in the next 
release. :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQbTT605ags

Ary Borenszweig escribió:
 I've uploaded some short videos in my YouTube account that show some of 
 Descent's features. I'll upload more as time goes by.
 
 http://www.youtube.com/asterite
 
 Ary Borenszweig wrote:
 The Descent plugin for Eclipse provides an IDE for writing, launching 
 and debugging code in D.

Sweeeet!

Thanks so much for descent, the latest version really rocks. 

Ary Borenszweig Wrote:

 The Descent plugin for Eclipse provides an IDE for writing, launching 
 and debugging code in D.
 
 Explanations on how to get it from within Eclipse are here:
 
 http://www.dsource.org/projects/descent
 
 This is mainly a bugfix/maintenance release. Much care has been taken to 
 improve memory usage and speed as well.



Eclipse refused to acknowledge that an update was available.  A simple
uninstall and reinstall of Eclipse  with Ubuntu packages left too much old
config information around, so I did a more aggressive removal followed by a
reinstallation.  Now Eclipse crashes on startup.

Does anyone know what I might have broke on my system?  My aggressive uninstall
was telling ubuntu to remove all eclipse related packages completely (delete
configs too) and then used find to locate missed eclipse related files and
delete them too.  I then used the package system to install the eclipse package.

Jason House wrote:

 Ary Borenszweig Wrote:
 
 The Descent plugin for Eclipse provides an IDE for writing, launching
 and debugging code in D.
 
 Explanations on how to get it from within Eclipse are here:
 
 http://www.dsource.org/projects/descent
 
 This is mainly a bugfix/maintenance release. Much care has been taken to
 improve memory usage and speed as well.


 
 Eclipse refused to acknowledge that an update was available.  A simple
 uninstall and reinstall of Eclipse  with Ubuntu packages left too much old
 config information around, so I did a more aggressive removal followed by
 a reinstallation.  Now Eclipse crashes on startup.
 
 Does anyone know what I might have broke on my system?  My aggressive
 uninstall was telling ubuntu to remove all eclipse related packages
 completely (delete configs too) and then used find to locate missed
 eclipse related files and delete them too.  I then used the package system
 to install the eclipse package.


The following worked for me to fix my configuration:
sudo apt-get purge eclipse
sudo apt-get auto-remove
sudo apt-get install eclipse

The Descent docs point to the JDT docs for some stuff. Anyone know of a
all-in-one 
static html version of that or a PDF version?

I don't know where you'al are keeping your bug reports so I'm posting this 
here 

syntax highlighting bug:

/**/
int i;

/***/
int j;

descent thinks that the "int i;" is part of the first comment.