new ideas for improving KDevelop

[Esben Mose Hansen]

On Friday 27 November 2009 15:05:24 Ishan Jayawardena wrote:
> Hello everyone, I'm a newbie to KDE development and I have some ideas
> to develop some functionality to improve KDevelop. But I have some
> questions to be asked before everything and I expect your help.
> 
> my ideas:
> 1) adding a "live parser" for KDevelop

already there. More error detection would be cool, of course.

> 2) adding an 'code formatting engine' for KDevelop
> I need them to be added not as plugins.

Heh, there is a thread about this.

> 
> 
> I will explain these two at the end of my mail. But I have some more
> problems regarding development.
> 1) Should I develop above extensions for KDevelop4?

It's open source, submitting patches is what it is all about.

> 2) Should I use KDevelop4 in my development?

I do.

> 3) I have an old machine with 256MB RAM, 800MHz, but enough disk
> space. Will I be able to build KDevelop on my machine?

probably, but not quickly, and I doubt the result would be useful :/

> 4) Should I have a thorough knowledge about Qt and any other matter?

it certainly helps.

welcome to the wonderful world often open source software :)

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Kind regards, Esben