Thread: Coders' Wishlists for 2006
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Unread 31-10-2005, 14:57
Ryan M. Ryan M. is offline
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Re: Coders' Wishlists for 2006
Well, there is support for other things thanks to the work of others. Search for "using eclipse."

What I would like to see:
  • Much more organized default code. Sure, you can take the stuff they give you and fix it, but then when they change a few things next year you have to start all over. One easy thing which would be especially nice for newer programmers would be just move all the utility include files into a separate directory. (Leave things that people commonly want to edit in the main area.)
  • Stripped down version of the default code. A version of the default code which contained only the essential, basic structure would be handy for the more advanced teams. Continue to have a version with examples, but also make one which gets rid of things like the default mappings of the joysticks to the motors.
  • USB programming capabilities. Yeah, I know that USB to serial converts usually work, but driver for the one I got caused horrible stability issues on my Windows box (not to mention took 10 minutes to download...) and it doesn't work at all with my Linux laptop. (As a side note: if anyone knows of one that works with Linux, tell me please!) I realize that the hardware isn't likely to change for a few more years, but is a wishlist.
  • Going off of that, native support for Linux would be nice. Not a big priority thanks the work of many people on this forum, but what if the next version of the compiler breaks all their work?
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