Eike Starkmann wrote:
Vladimir Zlatanov wrote:
The tool is usable, in some limited fashion - project teams etc... It is not a Drupal tool - there is no such beast - drupal is the tool itself.
Having said that the irc paste combo is used exactly in the manner you suggest. Not just by the drupal crowd, but by most projects I've touched.
That's a good point. So there is a need for collaborate editing or lets say realtime collaborate working, which is often done using irc, but I think that this way of collaboration can be improved.
Is there space for this tool - yes. Is it big? No. Until you can collaborate with others - eclipse, emacs, textmate, put your favourite environment, it is not going to be attractive. People don't like to be dependent on a specific platform. Everyone has their own.
So you think nobody would change their favourite environment to eclipse just because working together with Saros? That might be true, but what about doing reviews, you just have to use eclipse to do pair reviews, you don't have to switch to eclipse totally, you can keep on developing with what ever you want.
Greets, Eike
I've bounced between a number of different IDEs and dislike most of them. At the moment I'm using Eclipse. Really, it is NOT a casual-use tool. Especially for Drupal, it's not worth it unless you adopt it and take the time to customize it. I can't see anyone using Eclipse just for Saros and "other" for everything else. If adopted by a couple of people it could be enough to get someone to switch to Eclipse, perhaps, especially if some other Eclipse tools like Mylin had good Drupal-specific integration, but I can't see Eclipse itself as a casual-use IDE. (I say this having not tried it yet myself.) --Larry Garfield