Fwd: [plt-scheme] DrScheme development plugins/tools

From: David Einstein (deinst at gmail.com)
Date: Wed Aug 27 13:30:16 EDT 2008

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From: David Einstein <deinst at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 1:29 PM
Subject: Re: [plt-scheme] DrScheme development plugins/tools
To: Stephen De Gabrielle <spdegabrielle at gmail.com>




On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Stephen De Gabrielle <
spdegabrielle at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I recently put some tools on planet
>
> save/load sets of tabs in DrScheme; (the intention is to eventually
> associate tasks with sets of tabs ala mylyn)
> -
> http://planet.plt-scheme.org/display.ss?package=valet.plt&owner=spdegabrielle
> make the current directory as a planet package;
>  -
> http://planet.plt-scheme.org/display.ss?package=projects-project.plt&owner=spdegabrielle
>
> Perhaps excessively, both add menu-items and buttons to the DrScheme
> interface.
>
> any comments on plugins appreciated;
>  - do they fill a need? (apart from my own)


Yes.  Just being able to save and restore tabs is a great help.

>
>  - what should they do? (that they don't) what other
> developer/projectey features?


I would love to find a way of having 'run' and/or 'Check syntax' ask me to
save unsaved files in other tabs. I've looked a bit at this, but cannot see
a simple way to do it.

Version control would be great.

>
>  - what would improve the interface?
>  - bugs!
>  - how should I integrate tasks?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Stephen
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