I recently read that the PIDA IDE has
integrated support for pastebin. This seems like a great idea to me
— I often think about ways to more fully integrate irc into my
development experience.

Bots are doing a lot of nice tasks these days — the CIA bot, bots
for talking to bugzilla, and bots for tracking tinderbox results.
This all seems to be done piecemeal, every project does it
differently.

It might be interesting to run an irc bot inside eclipse and have
it automatically integrate different things. The pastebin idea is one
— it could upload code on command and post the URL to the channel of
your choice. Another would be to recognize bugzilla references (or
perhaps URLs) and show them in the appropriate Eclipse view. Thinking
bigger, perhaps ways to share development tasks via irc (or some more
suitable, and more secure, IM); say shared debugging, where gdb is
running on one person’s machine but both developers have a UI showing
what is going on.

Eclipse Happenings

The CDT
3.0 has been released. This is good news, though I’ve had a bit
of trouble getting it to work well on FC4. I think there may be some
kind of gdb version clash, but I’m not sure yet. Unfortunately the
CDT still has a ways to go before it can catch up to C development
tools on other platforms — e.g., Apple has “fix and continue”, but
the underlying Linux C tools still don’t support this sort of thing.
(This is one of the reasons to write in java — the tools are
undeniably better. More on this topic some other day.)

The KDE-Eclipse project
looks pretty cool. It seems to provide the long-awaited autoconf
plugin.