What features do you want in an IDE?

[EHaskins]

I think Astronouth7303 said most of what I could about everybody's suggestions.

The only thing is I like .NET, so FusionEdit 2 will be .NET 2(maybe 3 depends when I get it close to stable), but could be ported to mono eventually.

[JohnC]

Originally Posted by EHaskins

The only thing is I like .NET, so FusionEdit 2 will be .NET 2(maybe 3 depends when I get it close to stable), but could be ported to mono eventually.

I was going to say for all that is good, please make it platform independent, and if it MUST be a Windows-only IDE, I beg beg beg of you not to use the .Net framework.

But alas.

[bear24rw]

Originally Posted by JohnC

I was going to say for all that is good, please make it platform independent, and if it MUST be a Windows-only IDE, I beg beg beg of you not to use the .Net framework.

But alas.

Python!!

[Bharat Nain]

I think Tom has most of my wishes covered. The most important thing is that whatever features you do make available, make sure they work well. If I choose to use it, in the long run I do not want to deal with random crashes/buggy features. Make sure a lot of beta-testing is done before you release the final version. I am sure a lot of us will be willing to deliberately test every feature available. Hope this turns out well.

EDIT: I would like to see it compatible with older OS's. Many teams do not have the luxury of using vista/xp for programming. Our programming laptop is a Windows 2000. Only about last year we upgraded to 2000 from Windows 98. Most of the team's I help in the pits use 2000 and not XP, so having it compatible with older OS's is a big plus. Another thing is most of these are not very powerful. Their specs are usually 256MB RAM with a 1.3Ghz processor. So making it as light as possible will also help. I know this is asking for a lot, but I am sure you will do your best.

[Gary Dillard]

<Mech Engr obviously browsing the wrong forum> Uh, what's an IDE?

[Alexa Stott]

Originally Posted by Gary Dillard

<Mech Engr obviously browsing the wrong forum> Uh, what's an IDE?

an Integrated Development Environment. Basically, it's what you use to write your code, compile it, etc.

IDE on Wikipedia.

[cmptrgy412]

I don't know if uploading code to an svn everytime you compile is a great idea, as someone else suggested a few posts earlier.
If one needs to search through old code, he'll end up looking through thousands of commits thanks to the svn/cvs being updated every compile. CVS/SVN should be updated for every working change. When debugging, you don't want any of that updated to the CVS/SVN. I think it would be best if there was a button/hotkey for easy updating, but not an update every time.

I'd like to see linux support too, so yes please make platform independent or at least easily portable to another OS, meaning not .NET
I think there's a working compiler for linux now that works for PIC. I'll have to look that up again.

Good luck.