What's missing for 4.0

[Aleix Pol]

You can report that as a wish in bko (if it's not already reported) and
we'll see.
It's not that straightfordward anyway since nowadays programs have tons of
executables.

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Girard Henri <girardhenri at free.fr> wrote:

> Andreas Pakulat a écrit :
>
>  On 16.09.09 16:08:21, David Nolden wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Once again, I think it would be good to re-evaluate what features we need
>>> to implement before we can release KDevelop 4.0.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I've tried to tag things in bugzilla with Target 1.0.0 and 4.0.0
>> respectively, would be good to go over that list and check what might be
>> missing or what might be possible to drop.
>>
>> I haven't been able to go through the wishes again (as I did for bugs
>> recently) though.
>>
>>
>>> So, the stuff that I think we need:
>>> - User friendly session management ("Close Session" instead of "Close All
>>> Projects", etc.)
>>> - A project-model selection mechanism (the dolphin stuff) that is merged
>>> with the build-set, has a default-selection based on the currently open
>>> file, and is used used as default for running/debugging
>>>
>>> And of course massive bug fixing (including the debugger).
>>>
>>> What's your list?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I don't really know. I guess I'm using kdevelop too little. One thing we
>> definetly need - IMHO - is better integration between
>> project tree and vcs support (deleting a folder should delete it from
>> the VCS, adding a file to vcs should add it to the project). Another
>> vcs-related thing is being able to checkout a project from a repository,
>> possibly with a repo-browser-toolview.
>>
>> Another item is the grepview, it works, but it doesn't play well
>> together with projects. I don't have a clear plan on that though.
>>
>> Providing EditorContext for the editor context menu so vcs actions are
>> in it (Or does that work already?) and more importantly provide a
>> FileContext for the filemanager so we get a fully-loaded context menu
>> there.
>>
>> Another thing we have to decide is what to do about mercurial and git
>> support. I know mercurial got some love a few months ago, but I have no
>> idea what its state really is. I do know that git's state is pretty bad
>> and I also know that if I'd work on it we'd need another 3-5 months to
>> finish up as I'd definetly want to rewrite the code in parts.
>>
>> Then there's documentview, coverage, the whole veritas/xtest stuff,
>> valgrind and cvs. I never tried cvs and I think its a plugin that should
>> rather be in extragear - who uses cvs these days anyway ;) valgrind
>> plain doesn't work (AFAIK) and only the memcheck is properly supported.
>> veritas/xtest is unmaintained since almost a year, its hard to use and
>> IMHO clear candidate for removal. Same with coverage I think. Leaves
>> documentview, it works and has only few (if any) bugs AFAIK, but should
>> move to the platform IMHO.
>>
>> Thats about it. I think spicing up grepview would take 1 full weekend,
>> the context-menu-stuff only a day at most. The vcs stuff is a bit more,
>> probably doable in 2-3 weekends (features, not fixing up bugs found
>> along the way ;)
>>
>> I'd also like to point out that I think we'll need about 3 months of
>> feature freeze for bugfixing. There's already quite a pile of bugreports
>> and not all of them are so easy to fix. So I don't think a release this
>> year is very probable, rather january next year. This means we could aim
>> at releasing with KDE 4.4 (and potentially even requiring it if there
>> are important features/bugfixes to use).
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>>
>>
> Hi,
> I would like an exe straight after compilation without configuration ?
> like in kdevelop before
> Configuration of exe is very "not convivial"
> thanks
> Henri
>
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