OCIDE is not maintained anymore

[ColinDuquesnoy]

I decided to stop maintaining OCIDE and that I wouldn't work on HackEdit (the supposed successor of OCIDE).

The decision was not easy to make, I realized that I lost all interest in COBOL and the motivation to work on another IDE while some great IDE are now coming with very good support for all the languages I use daily: Visual Studio Code is really awesome for C++, QML and Python and it's open-source.

GnuCOBOL is a nice project and I am sure it will continue to evolve the right way. I'd suggest the team to invest some time in another open-source IDE such as VS Code or Atom.

I will edit the readme and the documentation to clearly state that the project is not maintained anymore. If anyone want to continue the project, feel free to post here and I'll make you part of the OCIDE github organisation with full access to the repositories.

I will not fix the remaining issues and will not make a last release.

[GitMensch]

@ColinDuquesnoy
Someone showed up who wanted to put effort in PyQode/PyQode-COBOL and Hackedit (which he actually uses on a daily basis) - but had to point out that https://github.com/HackEdit/pyhackedit-python gives you a 404. Can you please try to restore the project and at least push your most current version back allowing him to fork it (ideally with adding any docs that gone missing)?

[ColinDuquesnoy]

The most current version of HE is still available on pypi:

• https://pypi.python.org/pypi/hackedit/
• https://pypi.python.org/pypi/hackedit-cobol/
• https://pypi.python.org/pypi/hackedit-python/

[faustinoaq]

Hi, Maybe a full featured plugin for VSCode would be good 😉

[GitMensch]

@faustinoaq: @ColinDuquesnoy already said over in the other Repo that he won't doing any work on implementing COBOL anywhere.
The two options for VSCode are:

• https://github.com/spgennard/vscode_cobol - works as it is (currently syntax highlighting only)
• or implement COBOL as LSP which will allow to use many features that you have in VSCode and other editors/IDEs

If you have any interest in providing code for this please drop a note.

[faustinoaq]

@ColinDuquesnoy @GitMensch I really like the simple IDE design of OpenCobolIDE, Can I use this code to make an experimental/basic IDE for Crystal Language ?

[GitMensch]

@faustinoaq

Can I use this code to make an experimental/basic IDE for Crystal Language ?

Sure, this is already allowed under the terms of the license.

Note: You likely would have to add a PyQode module for the Chrystal Langue if you don't want to change many of the internals as OCIDE heavily uses PyQode.