I understand the need to get astable SDK, but i think the pages "improvements", "what's new" and "known bugs" need to be updated or removed because their current state is very bad publicity for Code::Blocks. Perhaps also keeping links to nightlies for some popular distros as it's not very nice that newcomers need to search through threads to find nightlies for their platform
I agree. I believe the way codeblocks is being realesed for the last 2 1/2 years has hurt its image more than the devs realize. I doubt anyone working productively is willing to work with versions of the ide that have been built directly from the repository without testing.
I consider it ridiculous of the codeblocks-devs that they are not confident enough in their own product to release it but to expect people to use it.
If codeblocks is usable and more or less stable then choose a nightly build, call it a beta fix bugs for a few weeks and release it.This way, serious users, plug-in developers and distributions have a version to work with and you can work on codeblocks 2.0. There is a reason why every other software project is organised that way...
v1.0 just has to be stable and have all the features users can expect from a free ide. It does not have to be perfect and incorporate every idea you ever had for an IDE. If you work like that, you will never release because there is always something to improve and you will always get great new ideas while working on your existing plan.
If codeblocks is not usable and more or less stable then why do you continue to release versions of an unusable IDE?
The way it is now, a lot of people who are not willing to work with alpha-software will ignore codeblocks, forget about it and choose an alternative.
Also, someone wrote that the release of codeblocks will be a revolution comparable to that of firefox.
a) firefox took 2 years from the first alpha release to the first final, not 4 and it had quite a few usable beta-releases during the last few month
b) when firefox was released, it was the only modern and free webbrowser for windows and linux (khtml was very new, opera was still commercial, IE was still crap, mozilla was outdated). In contrast, there are plenty of alternatives to codeblocks. Its only selling argument (i can see) is, that it is the only cross-platform ide for c++ besides eclipse/cdt. Few month from now, kdevelop4 will probably run natively on windows (currently only possible with cygwin afaik) making codeblocks #3.
I don't see a revolution coming honestly...
Anyway, sorry for the long rant and have a nice weekend.