KDevelop: General direction and UI - don't worry

[Alexander Dymo]

On Tuesday 04 November 2008 18:14:21 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > Although I think that a plugin installation system from within the IDE
> > (like eclipse's or khotnewstuff) would be much better. We want to make it
> > as _easy_ as possible to install just this single extra plugin, nobody
> > likes messing with installation stuff. Preferably even with some kind of
> > search for discoverability.
>
> The problem with that is compiling that stuff, or providing binary packages
> for most/all distributions. Anyway, thats for the mid-term future, lets
> concentrate on 4.0.

Actually, that's not that hard to do. We can use opensuse's build service and 
cater for 90% of the distributions. It will be also possible to set up build 
farms for windows and macos.

But I agree completely with Andreas, that's after 4.0 for sure.