KDE Windows and releases

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 20.12.07 22:45:14, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Thursday 20 December 2007, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > On 19.12.07 20:34:00, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 19 December 2007, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > > > as I said, I'm subscribed now :-)
> > > >
> > > > On Wednesday 19 December 2007, Ralf Habacker wrote:
> > > > ...
> > > >
> > > > > One reason against mingw was that debugging kde applications with gdb
> > > > > would be very hard because of very very long debug info loading time
> > > > > and that there is no gui available - is anyone there who can give an
> > > > > update ?
> > > >
> > > > As already noted, kdevelop should be an option.
> > > > Shouldn't insight be working with mingw ?
> > >
> > > What about Eclipse ?
> >
> > Don't you dare ;) That evil competitor. 
> 
> You are right. The thing is, there is a lot of money going into Eclipse 
> development, and many companies earn money from it, so I simply guess that 
> it's debugging support should be good.

Guessing doesn't help and unfortunately Eclipse simply fails to be fast
enough to be usable here, else I'd do the testing (at least not in the
next 6 months) 

> > Seriously though, has Eclipse
> > overcome its issues with larger projects? I didn't follow the
> > development very closely, but last time I tried importing kdelibs wasn't
> > possible, unless one deactivates the source-indexer. How's the gdb
> > support going in Eclipse?
> 
> I don't know.
> CDT 4.0 is said to be much better than all previous CDT version.s

Oh, uhm, you know KDevelop4 is also already quite a bit better than
KDevelop3 ;) 

Anyway, I don't want to bash on Eclipse, I'm really interested in
experiences from people using real-world-large projects with Eclipse.

Andreas

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