Cat and IDE Support
I was looking over the XACC IDE web site the other day thinking how that because it was written in C# that it would be easy to extend to support Cat, when much to my surprise after downloading it I found it already supported Cat! That made my day. The XACC IDE is very clean and elegant, and I think is an IDE with a lot of promise.
In other Cat IDE news I have been in discussions with Guillaume Cartier, the developer of Jazz Scheme about adding support for Cat into JEDI - the Jazz Scheme IDE. He showed me how to do it, I just have to hack a bunch of configuration files (and rebuild the “catalog” and a few other steps). JEDI is very special, because it is largely dynamically configurable and everything is written from the ground up in Jazz Scheme. Eventually it will be fully cross platform, because they don’t rely on Windows common controls (despite having a Windows look and feel). JEDI is one of the most powerful IDEs I have ever seen, because all of the code is exposed.
Finally I am still hoping Adrian Savage will make some bug fixees to his Eclipse plugin, the discussion and link can be found in this thread.