Request to Authors: Make IDE Open Source?

I read an older post by Jay Kyburz who, I think, made a pretty good suggestion. I was going to suggest the same thing.

I have just purchased BlitzMax, which I am very excited about. But the IDE leaves much to be desired (I'm coding on a Mac). Would it be practical and desireable for the authors of the BlitzMax IDE to make it open source? Maybe someone out there would turn it into a masterpiece in a relatively short time. I'd like to work with the proper tools for my Blitz development.

Thanks for listening.

Something needs to be done about the mac IDE, its woeful.

Hey Johndevoy,

I just discovered TextWrangler and I am using that now for my Blitz development. Combined with BlitzBuddy, I also have Blitzmax support (compiling, syntax coloring, help). Check it out here:

http://www.simulacrum.net.nz/index.php

Use it!

Nelson

The current Mac IDE will maybe not be opensourced, but in the spirit of cross platform Max programs written using Max, the Windows/Linux IDE will eventually be ported to Mac - and the source will hopefully be released alongside the MaxGUI module.

Yeah, that's what I was talking about I think.

It will be difficult to manage 100's of people all making small improvements to a single IDE. I don't imagine BRL will want to try an manage this and make some peoples improvements official.

Does anybody have any experience working on a community project like this?

Personally the only thing I miss in the MAC IDE is the function list, were all functions and types I put in my code are listed.

I think REALbasic has spoiled me. I can no longer live without autocomplete.

It seems to be going relatively smoothly for the modules so far... except for the lack of a Module Archive...