Fwd: Re: Fwd: KDevelop press release

[Ralf Nolden]

Sandy Meier wrote:

OK, I added a few lines that introduce into the annouce. If anyone has
some trademarks, feel free to add them (like Motif) I don't know who's
the tm holder for those.

here we go:


> KDevelop 1.0 - The KDE Development Environment

The KDevelop Team is proud to annouce the availability of its KDevelop
Integrated Development Environment for Unix Systems, version 1.0 Beta 1.

KDevelop can be found at http://www.kdevelop.org  and will as well be
included in the next major KDE release.

Project description:

1. Introduction
 
> 1.1 The Team
> 
> The KDevelop Project, started in summer of 1998, aims to provide
> developers a good, stable and useful environment that can compete with
> modern graphical software development tools. Since the beginning of the
> development, the team has grown from three members of the core team to
> seven codewriters and a translation team where another 12-15 people
> contribute their work to.
> 
> 1.2 Intention
> 
> The first reason why KDevelop has been created was the fact that
> although Unix systems provides the user with a good and stable
> environment, including the X-Window system, it lacks a modern,
> competitive solution for application development that will make users of
> the dark side of power think it's time to contribute to another world.
> 
> Whereas hard-core Unix-developers state that Emacs and vi are the
> ultimate solution, the KDE provides developers a complete application
> framework together with the Qt library. The fact of the commercial
> availability of Qt also gets the interest of commercial development
> parties. Therefore the KDevelop project wants to
> 
> a) provide a code-writing environment
> b) simplify the use of standard development tools such as autoconf and
> automake
> c) offer a RAD tool by a graphical dialogeditor that reduces GUI design
> cycles
> d) give developers direct, uncomplicated access to documentation written
> by the team as well as by third parties, including the KDE and Qt API
> 
> 2. Overview
> 
> The KDevelop IDE offers functionality for the following parts of C/C++
> application development:
> 
> a) a wizard-based projectgenerator that builds configurable frameworks
> for various application types
> b) a coding environment, including:
> - a syntax-highlighting editor
> - a classbrowser/viewer
> - fileviewers
> c) a documentation system for direct access to HTML-online
> documentation, including 5 handbooks for KDE/Qt development and fast
> search functionalities
> d) a dialogeditor that fits the needs for rapid construction of user
> interfaces, embedded into the development environment completely
> e) works with the most needed programs automatically to edit files by
> mime-type, such as KIconedit or KDbg
> f) CVS support for project development
> g) support for uncomplicated internationalization of projects
> h) internationalized into 10 languages (application; documentation only
> available in english)
> i) many additional features such as autosaving, commandline-passing etc.
> 
> This enables programmers to reduce development cylcles to a minimum
> while at the same time offering the flexibility to work as they like
> to.
> 
> We like to mention that although KDevelop requires KDE and Qt to work,
> you can as well use it for any other C++ project; it is designed as a
> C/C++ development environment in the first place. It's origin
> nevertheless followed in a consequent support for rapid KDE/Qt
> application design.
> 
> 3. Why using KDevelop IS an effort
> 
> The question is - do I want to use KDevelop for my application design ?
> Or do I really like to stick to black and white, text only ?
> 
> Every developer will ask if KDevelop can be better than Emacs, better
> than MS Visual Studio, better than Borland - The fact that it provides a
> complete, user friendly interface to simple application development most
> often steps back.
> 
> But the KDevelop Team does not think we have to step back behind a
> long-term development of e.g. Emacs. KDevelop actually IS being
> developed with beta versions of KDevelop- in our own interest, stability
> was and is the main goal. You can expect KDevelop to do what you want it
> to do, whenever you want to. And it will stay stable, as far as we can
> consider by user reports of prior development versions.
> 
> The features were designed during the need of them for our own
> development. The programmer can expect that his environment interacts
> with him intuitively and in a fast but friendly way.
> 
> All features are well documented as well as we provide a whole set of
> handbooks that will give KDE primers a seamless start from whereever
> they may come- GNOME, wxWindows or Motif.
> 
> We hope that our contribution to the free software market will make more
> users and programmers realize that they have a choice.
> 
> The KDevelop Team