the past, present and future of KDevelop

[Sandy Meier]

Hi!

After a successful KDevelop1.x serie (every release was mentioned on
slashdot.org!) and one week to relax (the last week :-)) I think we
should coordinate the further work a little bit.  As you know KDevelop2 was
already developed in the HEAD branch since September 1999.  This branch was
more a testing area than a usable application in the last months. Nevertheless
some new features and frameworks are already implemented and work sometimes. :-)

- "Component" Framework, customization framework, dcop interface
and new colored views (search,make...) (Bernd)
- integration of Dockwidgets and MDI/SDI incl. complete new filehandling ( Falk
and Sandy)  
- first test with plugins (Sandy)
- the dialog editor was removed because the old one wasn't extensible and
 Pascal wrote a new one. Unfortunately he haven't much time at the moment so we
need a new volunteer to finish the dialog editor and integrate it into KDevelop
- there is also a new 'basic' parser/lexer by Walter, which will  hopefully
parse "Makefile.am", C/C++ and maybe some other language in the future.

In my opinion everyone should first port all important features/documentation
from KDevelop1.2 to KDevelop2,  which he added after the KDevelop1.0beta2
release. I saw John have already started to port his debugger. 

After this I think we should discuss and add new features. Personally I want to
implement a new framework for the projectmanagment. This will include support
for multiple projectypes (KDE,GNOME, tmake-based...), different subprojects
(binary, shared lib..) and better multiuser support. We should also include the
possibility to add Fortran or Java support in the future.

It follows a list of all subscriber of this mailinglist (kdevelop-devel,
kdevelop-team) , so everbody knows who is on the road. :-)

smeier at rz.uni-potsdam.de            Sandy Meier
sheidric at rz.uni-potsdam.d e         Stefan Heidrich
bartel at rz.uni-potsdam.de              Stefan Bartel
Ralf.Nolden at post.rwth-aachen.de  Ralf Nolden
kdevelop at beast.de                      Pascal Krahmer
martin.piskernig at stuwo.at              Martin Piskernig
jorgen at trej.net                            Jörgen Olsson 
bernd at physik.hu-berlin.de           Bernd Gehrmann 
tasin at e-technik.fh-muenchen.de  Walter Tasin
zedlwski at princeton.edu               John R. Zedlewski
jonas.nordin at syncom.se              Jonas Nordin
jbb at ihug.co.nz                           John Birch
gigafalk at yahoo.com                    Falk Brettschneider
Benoit.cerrina at writeme.com          Benoit Cerrina
chcouder at club-internet.fr            Christian Couder
funken.ruk at netcologne.de            Ralf Funken
christian at alcove.fr                       ????


Ciao!
Sandy

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