Re: KDevelop

[Martin P Holland <nospam [at] noether.freeserve.co.uk>]

On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Al Hudson wrote:

>Actually, that's not a bad idea. I was hunting around for a K ftp app a
>while back, and I don't remember finding one. Although, theoretically, kfm
>should do the job (i.e. ftp:// in the URL). I don't know how good the ftp
>stuff is though; I don't remember it working well for me, but then I was
>connecting to a dodgy system ;))

Someone does have a project called kftp but last time I looked the author was
just looking at the GUI and there was no actual ftp functionality :-( All the
same it would be good to check this out before writing your own. Quickest way
to find a url is probably to search the kde-announce archive at www.kde.org

There is also kget (which has been renamed to caitoo).
I don't seem to have it installed at the moment but I recall it as being quite
good for downloading several things at once effciently. This comes with a
decent library kiolib to do ftp type stuff, so if you are writing something that
wants to do ftp stuff you could use the library. BTW I think this library is
going to appear in KDE2 as the replacement for the curent libkfm. libkio
uses the c++ standard library which seems very unusual for linux things, but is
a step in the right direction IMHO. cout good, printf bad ;-)

I downloaded kdevelop and it took a bit of hacking to persuade it to create the
kde library documentation with kdoc. I think I had to do it manually in the end.
But other than that it looked pretty good. kdbg is definitely worth having as
using gdb from the command line is painful.

atb
Martin

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