[computer-go] Open Source project

[Mark Boon]

On 7-aug-2006, at 13:36, Ron Goldman wrote:

> There's also java.net --- one of the few (only?) hosting sites that  
> provides a wiki in addition to the standard tools.
>

The one I got working the fastest was JavaForge. It doesn't have the  
extensive embedded 'help' as SourceForge does, but it looks really  
good. It comes standard with a Wiki, an online forum, a chat-room,  
automatic build support and a few other goodies. I also took a quick  
peek at the Google site, but the problem with Google is they're  
trying to do everything these days. And it's simply not possible to  
do everything well. I seems rather basic what they have to offer.

I've kind of gotten used to how Eclipse creates its projects and  
stores them in source-control with the source as a sub-directory of  
the project directory. I remember that was the hardest to get used to  
when I moved from NetBeans some years ago. Now I've come to rather  
like it because it's so easy to share whole projects that way.

But this may not be welcome to people using other development tools.  
I've even contemplated moving to IntelliJ myself, even though it's  
not free. Apparently it's really good and well worth the $500 it  
costs in productivity savings.

Anyway, what Eclipse does is create a .settings directory in the  
project directory and it creates .project and .classpath files. I  
hope these don't conflict with other popular development tools. Apart  
from an Ant-build I'd like the project to be organised as such that  
you can simply point the IDE of your choice to the Subversion URL, do  
a checkout and start going at it straightaway without any other  
configuration necessary.

Mark