Feature list for 4.0

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 28.05.08 08:37:46, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 May 2008 23:36:28 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'v finally finished the collection of feature ideas (and also "bugs")
> > that should be done before we can release KDevelop 4.0.
> > 
> > Please everybody have a look at
> > 
> > http://www.kdevelop.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=KDevelop_4/Feature_Plan
> > 
> > If anybody wants to discuss any of the items and wether they really need
> > to be done for 4.0, please do so here or directly in the wiki - whatever
> > fits you better.
> > 
> > I tried to put not too much into the 4.0 list, but I'm not sure I've
> > suceeded at that :)
> 
> There are few items that I think are missing:
> 
> 1. Multiple window support, which is totally broken right now.
> 
> 2. Implement the launchers framework.
> 
> 3. Finish porting debugger.

Yeap, will add that later, unless you beat me :)

> 4. Unmess shorcuts?

Oh right. I'll ping Alex about this, but we'll have to wait until KDE
4.1 is released to commit his patch.

> 5. C++ support. I think there are few things to be added to
>    reach usable feature parity with other IDEs:
> 
> 	- Outline of the current class/quick open of method
> 	in current class. Presently, there's no easy way
> 	to do this.
> 
> 	- Find all uses of a symbol. Build call graph (which
> 	functions call this one)

I have those on my list, but under KDevelop 4.x (x>0) because I don't
think they're really _that_ important for the 4.0 release. For me its
fine if we reach feature-completeness for C++ compared to KDevelop3.5

> I also plan, personally, to implement support for Boost.Build.

As a new Buildsystemmanager plugin?

Andreas

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