Kirk said:
I have used Eclipse with RDT for quite a while, but a couple months ago I
started switching to KDevelop, in large part because KDevelop gives me
(almost) everything I like about Eclipse in a faster, less bulky package.
If my development box were a cutting edge, super fast machine with a lot
of excess RAM, I probably wouldn't have as much incentive to use KDevelop,
but given that it's not any of those things, I've so far not found a lot
to
complain about with KDevelop. In fact, if I could hook it to my CVS
repository so that I could be extra lazy and do commits from within the
editor, and if I could have a tree view of my project areas (and maybe I
can and just need to learn the app better), I'd really have nothing to
complain about.
KDevelop certainly has built in CVS support, so you can do what you
describe. And it has a what I would call a tree view of the project areas
under the 'File Tree' tab.
Eclipse + RTD is good, but KDevelop, at least for Linux, has the potential
to be great.
That's certainly encouraging. It would be very hard to catch up with Eclipse
for java support, but for other languages like ruby and C++ I think we can
do at least as well as Eclipse.
KDevelop is Free Software with a low barrier to entry. If it has something
missing, such as a Rails project template or whatever, please feel free to
join in. Mail me for help, and/or subscribe to the
(e-mail address removed) mailing list..
There is a very annoying bug where the icons for the debugger step options
don't installed properly in the 3.2.0 release. I've fixed that in the cvs,
in both the HEAD and KDE_3_4_RELEASE branches. Because nobody has
complained, I was wondering if anyone was actually using it for ruby
development.
-- Richard
