Thursday, May 15, 2008

NetBeans 6.1 : no go for YAML development

I've tried doing some YAML work in the new NetBeans 6.1 to see how it stacks up against Eclipse for JavaBuilder development.

Unfortunately, a few things out the bat went wrong:
a) the YAML editor is not part of the base IDE, nor is it a stand-alone plugin. You have to download the entire Ruby support bundle to get it. Minor, but a little annoying.

YAML != Ruby on Rails
YAML > Ruby on Rails

b) the editor seems to only support a small subset of YAML syntax (probably just what is needed for Ruby on Rails) and in particular it does not recognize YAML block literals:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAML#Newlines_preserved

which I use all over the place, especially for the "layout" definitions.

I've filed two issues for this, please vote on them and help to get them fixed in a future update:
http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=135165
http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=135166

8 comments:

Andres Almiray said...

Voted! =)

Jacek Furmankiewicz said...

Muchos gracias! :-)

Jacek Furmankiewicz said...

Hm, are you sure you voted? Only my vote is showing.

The NB Issuezilla interface is very 1985...just clicking on the Vote link does not actually vote, but brings you to another screen where you have to scroll down 30 rows to find the one related to your defect and enter the number "1" in the field next to it...I guess they want to discourage voting :-)

Andres Almiray said...

You are absolutely right, not as user-friendly as JIRA, voted (again) ;-). Bon jour!

Jacek Furmankiewicz said...

Thank you!

Ogma said...

It certainly is an interesting voting interface! Very interesting work you're doing. Thanks.

Jacek Furmankiewicz said...

Thanks Ogma, much appreciated

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