[cdt-dev] Building a GNOME IDE for Eclipse

[<biswapesh.chattopadhyay@xxxxxx>]

Hi,

I was wondering if there is some work undergoing to build plugins to get a decent GNOME IDE using the Eclipse and CDT frameworks. Specifically, IMO the following bits are required to fill in for the missing bits:
	1. Wizards for various types of GNOME projects and files (should be easy to get them from Anjuta and other projects)
	2. Autotools integration (including GUI - should not be very difficult - take ideas/code from Anjuta/KDevelop)
	3. Integrate GNOME documentation (Emulate what devhelp is doing with output of gtk-doc or convert devhelp TOC XML. Also need man and info convertors into Eclipse doc XML format for TOC)

Is anyone working on any of the above ? Also, how is the 3.0 M5 considered in quality (stability, speed, UI responsiveness, etc.) for the GTK2 port ? Can it form the basis of a reasonably stable IDE for developing GNOME apps in C/C++ ?

I would like to work on some of the above bits in my spare time. Although I have precious litle experience in Java, I have worked in other IDE and related projects, e.g. Anjuta (http://anjuta.org/) , TagManager (http://tagmanager.sf.net/) and SourceBase (http://sourcebase.sf.net/).

Any pointers towards getting started would be gratefully received, as would pointers to existing projects.

Thanks and regards,
Biswa.