> Oswald I agree with you that IDE involves everything, from editing code to > building > it. But perhaps you might also agree that some of the currently available > IDE's > were conceived in a period of platform fragmentation. When everybody just did > their > own thing. Nowadays most developers want to write (and build) cross-platform > code. > So maybe it's a good time to re-think the I in IDE. Personally, I would not > mind if > project files generation was left up to cmake and the IDE just did code > highlighting, text editing, auto-complete and interpreting the > compiler/debugger > output.
The problem with this is that the IDE then lacks project management, which most developers these days would scream about. I also have the extra step of, any time I want to add files to the project, regenerating the project files for my IDE, which is highly annoying (and the exact opposite of Integrated). There's a reason I wouldn't consider using kdevelop 4, even though I used kdevelop 3 for years (and even contributed to both versions) - they dropped qmake support in version 4. -Kris _______________________________________________ Qt-creator mailing list Qt-creator@qt.nokia.com http://lists.qt.nokia.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator
