This only occurred to me this morning but maybe it's been suggested before. It's one of those ideas that's blindingly obvious but somehow, everybody missed it.
Code::Blocks is an open source, cross platform IDE.
There are many open source libraries available today.
There are very few cross platform build environments. For example, make works well with *nix and gcc but doesn't work with VC++. VC projects work well for Windows compilation but can't be used for other platforms. XCode is apparently superb for OS-X development but not for anything else.
Wouldn't there therefore be some merit in maintaining somewhere a downloadable repository of C::B projects for other open source projects? For example, official C::B projects for libglib, lingtk, libpango, libfftw3, libxml etc, etc. Maintained voluntarily by the C::B development community.This might be pretty useful for boosting Code::Blocks's popularity. Does such a thing exist? Or does anyone else think it's a good idea?