Re: [ANN] Lua Development Tools available at Eclipse.org

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

On 14/11/2011 19:11, Benjamin Cabé wrote:
> The Eclipse Koneki development team is pleased to announce the
> availability of its Lua Development Tools, that can be installed via the
> Koneki update site (see explanations at the bottom of this message).
> Not only Lua Development Tools is providing you with the features you
> would expect from any IDE (syntax highlighting, code folding, ...), but a
> really nice addition is that we include a real Lua debugger, well
> integrated in the IDE (thanks to Eclipse DLTK, actually).
> We are relying on Metalua for source code analysis ; and thanks to JNLua,
> the tooling is cross-platform! :-)
[...]
> To give Lua Development Tools a try, it is super easy: just add the Koneki
> update site [1] to your Eclipse 3.6+ installation (Help>  Install New
> Software...), and install "Lua Development Tools (Incubator)".
>
> Please visit http://eclipse.org/koneki/ldt
> <http://eclipse.org/koneki/ldt/>  to learn more about the project, watch a
> quick screencast, access the documentation regarding the debugger, etc.
> Bugs or feature requests should be filed in our Bugzilla [2].

This looks very interesting, I should try it.

A remark, about this announcement, and the page you link to: with a glance, it is hard to 
tell if the product is commercial, open source (with which license?) or other...
There are hints: the fact the project seems to be an official Eclipse one, the access to 
the source code... So I can suppose it is open source, likely to be under the EPL license.

But since there are commercial IDEs for Lua, and commercial plug-ins for Eclipse, I think 
it is better to be explicit about this.

Just a kind advice. Looks great, and the page is very professional. :-)

It is a bit funny to use a behemoth like Eclipse to work on a lightweight language like 
Lua, but some people (lot of Java programmers, some C/C++ ones, etc.) already have the 
IDE, so it is not a real problem...

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