Dave Culp wrote: > Firstly, thanks for taking on the 2D panel clipping. That's been sorely > needed for a few years now. > > As for IDE's, I think most developers here don't use one.
I've always used emacs + make. I've done some windows based projects using IDE's (both MS and Borland) and frankly, I just don't see that they gain you all that much over simpler approaches, but I don't feel like they are a hindrance either. I think it just boils down to knowing how to use your tools effectively and choosing the ones you prefer. (I don't want to start a political discussion here.) I've always edited my files in emacs which allows me to open up multiple windows on multiple files like an ide would. Then I run "make" in a text window. There are all sorts of little trade offs between make/emacs and an ide. An ide can provide a number of little conveniences, but have you ever had the need to do some development or debugging on a client's remote system? Some systems are large enough and complicated enough that you can't just email the client a new .exe, it makes more sense to log in and work remotely. Some of the differences stem from the unix philosophy/culture versus the windows philosophy/culture. Unix tends to favor a collection of tools, each tool doing it's particular task *really* well, but it's up to the developer/user to connect these smaller tools together to accomplish larger tasks. Windows tends to a favor giant monolithic apps that do everything in one big .exe. So in unix I choose to use emacs to edit my source files because it is an incredibly powerful and flexible editor, and I would choose gcc/g++/make to compile my code because I just love RMS so much. There is gdb and valgrind and others for debugging, there is cvs for source code version management, there are the autotools (ack!), and a variety of other little utils (awk, grep, perl, etc.) that you can pull in to do different little tasks. In windows you typically get this all rolled together in one giant app. But each individual piece of the app might not be quite as full featured and flexible as the individual tools you would find in unix. That said, 99.9% of popular unix software is ported to windows so a unix head stuck on a windows box can still survive and be relatively happy. Sorry, I'm just rambling now ... better get off my butt and go to work here ... :-) Curt. -- Curtis Olson http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt HumanFIRST Program http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/ FlightGear Project http://www.flightgear.org Unique text: 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
