On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Andre Poenitz < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 03:34:25PM +0000, Danny Price wrote: > > I'm fairly certain both VisualStudio 1.0 and Eclipse 1.0 had the ability > to > > rename source files. > > Danny, > > if the developers of VS and Eclipse had enough resources to spent to > integrate cross-platform, cross-VCS file manager capabilities, so, well, > I admit it, I envy them. > I would consider the abilty to rename a file more fundamental to an IDE than supporting every major source control solution under the sun. Source-control support in IDEs is generally mediocre, if it exists at all, and most developers use dedicated source control clients or the command line. And dedicated solutions will always beat a one-size-fits all IDE. > I don't have these resources, and the ones I have I rather spent not on > duplicating functionality that is already available in abundance on > everybody's desktop - at least not as long as there is a long wish list > of more important things. > I appreciate that. And cross-platform development is hard. But there is no roadmap for QtCreator that I can see - do you have an estimate for when this issue may be addressed? > > Everybody who wants to have a file manager can have that rather easily, > VCS integration inclusive. Switching applications every now and then > might be inconvenient and cumbersome, but it's a process that can be > handled resonably well by most programmers. On the other hand, not all > of them can read the contents of a QHash by looking at the d pointer in > gdb, so at least for me it's pretty clear what's going to the top and > what to the bottom of the todo list... > > Andre' > > Ah so the sticking point is making it work with source-control? I want to re-iterate that I love Creator. The editor is fantastic, hands-down the best I've encountered. And the debugger, while still rough around the edges is also above-average (better than XCode at least). And the ability to take a project to another platform and just run it is a marvel that many have tried and failed. But we're all developers on this list and Creator's abilities here only highlight it's basic flaws further.
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