getting started with development

[Robbie Murray]

Hi. I would like to start understanding the spiel code, how it is built
and maybe start contributing. Does anyone have any tips for my
development environment? I am new to Scala, although I have read the
book "Programming in Scala". I am using eclipse on windows. Is it the
best option?

I'm a bit confused about gradle and sbt.

Will it work to build spiel from eclipse, or should I build it on my
Linux machine?

Thanks in advance

Regards

Robbie

[Nolan Darilek]

I've never actually used Eclipse to build Spiel so don't know how it
works or if indeed it does.

I think ultimately I'd like to transition away from SBT to Gradle
because it seems to have a bit more development mindshare. I'd recommend
working with it going forward. Have you attempted to use it and had any
issues? It works fine for me under Windows, and I imagine would work
well on Linux too.

[Robbie Murray]

Do you use an IDE for development, or just a text editor?

I haven't tried building spiel yet, but I don't expect to have any
problems with Gradle. I just wasn't sure what the relationship between
Gradle and sbt was. All the Scala documentation seams to talk about SBT
exclusively. I take it Gradle is a replacement for SBT?

All I have done so far with eclipse is successfully compile and run a
Scala hello world.

[Nolan Darilek]

I just use notepad++ and "./gradlew installDebug" from the command line.

[Robbie Murray]

Ok. That is certainly simpler than faffing about with the complexities of eclipse.

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[Hrvoje Katić]

Yep, but Eclipse at least makes necessary Java module imports for You, so You don't have to think about what you should import while writing code.

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[Robbie Murray]

Ok, I'll keep trying with eclipse - it certainly has a lot of useful features, just quite a steep learning curve.  I especially like the fact that you can jump from a compile error straight to the location in the code.  I've found some info about Gradle integration for eclipse, so I'll take a look at that.