Re: FW: KDevelop

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Simon Hudson wrote:

> Wow, I didn't even know this was happening! I've been back to Windows for a
> while to do this http://www.simon.hudson.dial.pipex.com/Wrigglers.htm so I
> haven't been watching Linux.

There's a lot of activity on the IDE front currently, but the K team have
been going particularly fast. It's going to be interesting to see how they
manage the QT2 thing, and how much stuff is going to change. K is becoming
a *really* nice environment to code in...

> Excellent, let me know how you get on with it. It could be time to dump
> E/Gnome and install KDE.

Dump it anyway ;)) Seriously though, I'll be pleased to report back about
my use of it. I want to see how well I can get it to interact with
software I've already written in particular.

> I'd seen that Inprise/Borland were porting the Delphi/C++ Builder
> environment to Linux, but that looks a way off yet.

Actually, I'm not sure it's as way off as you might expect - certainly,
they've already started getting linux tools out the door. Kylix (that's
the name, IIRC) isn't going to be completely new technology either, as far
as I can remember. Basically, it's primarily going to be a RAD builder,
but I understood that they were going to either use a lot of current tools
(i.e. autoconf/egcs/etc) or do something similar - the idea is going to be
that this will not be a port of the windows tools, it's going to be linux
native technology.

> There's a couple of
> other IDEs floating around but they look very flaky as yet.

There's a *load* of flakey IDEs out there ;)) Not surprising though, when
the two main linux IDEs are emacs and vim . . .

Cheers,

Alex.

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