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Master:
hello all .
I have an idea for making CodeBlocks even more easy to use , ( i mean making it literally useable out of the box specially for noob programmers)
i've seen that Qt and some other big editors which utilize some special kind of framework offer more than one options in regards of downloading. one the bare editor , and the other options is the whole SDK (which contains the prebuild libraries plus the editor) , and its great help , when your download finishes , you are ready to go, there is no hasle in going about compiling source codes related to the framework and etc, everything is setup already and is ready to use. visual studio and Qt  are kinda this way.
why cant we do this with CodeBlocks and wxWidgets Framework?
there could be two bundles , ( or even more), one that only offers codeblocks ( as it is now) and the other one offers codeblocks plus all it needs to work flawlessly ( prebuild wxwidgets binaries and needed configs) .?
wxDev is already doing this and made it really simple to work with it , and i thought codeblocks really deserved sth like this .
there are some advantages too :
the number of questions and threads in forum concerning the malfunctioning /not working the wxwidgets app in CB will decrease , because programmers wouldn't need to compile anything related to wxwidgets so the probability of messing sth related to that is zero .,
making the sdk also helps more people to be able to work on codeblocks too , because everything is already set up, and there is no need to go through special stages for developing CB and whenever one wishes, can go and help the development of codeblocks since all he needs is already there .
and more ...

i would be honored if you share your comments on this idea with me.
Thank you all in advance

killerbot:
When you download our release version, which parts do you think are still missing ? The CB part contains all it needs, and we also have one, bundled with MingW, so you even have compiler + debugger.

Master:

--- Quote from: killerbot on August 26, 2010, 09:58:22 pm ---When you download our release version, which parts do you think are still missing ? The CB part contains all it needs, and we also have one, bundled with MingW, so you even have compiler + debugger.

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thank you for your reply .
that's good , but i think that's not enough .
because you cant even have a simple hello world in wxWidgets ( using wxSmith ) , it requires the prebuild wxWidgets framework and thats a part of CodeBlocks .
those two bundles are already great and needed ,but by issuing this thread , i more intended on talking about wxWidgets Framework, cause i think thats one of the  crucial Task CodeBlocks has ( in terms of providing Rad tools for easier development using wxwidgets ).
or even other part of codeblocks ( for different projects), if there were some 'Package managing' facilities in CB ,so that , the prebuild packages would be set up and ready for download, and user's could choose to install the needed packages and the package manager would take care of everything , this would also be great ( just like netbeans IDE ) but i think this would take some more work to develop such system.

but as  i mentioned before , the prebuild wxWidgets bundle would be of great help .( let the bundle be 1 gigbyte , the good thing about this bundle is that  , when you install it you know that verything needed is just there, just everything is there and you can just use the whole package without any hassle.
 

huzhongshan:
yeah , I think  cb+mingw+wxwidgest sdk package is necessary.

dasfoo:

--- Quote from: huzhongshan on August 27, 2010, 12:16:58 am ---yeah , I think  cb+mingw+wxwidgest sdk package is necessary.

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Not that I'm contributing, but I'm all for this sort of thing.  Maybe it's my own projection but I feel that if you can't install and go, you lose 75% of your potential users right there. 

I use WinAvr for work.  Nice thing is you download it, install, and it just works.  Visual Studio, you download it, install it, and it works.  Eclipse, you download it, and then it barfs all over the place until you get everything setup correctly.  Then you try and install it on other peoples machines and same thing.  Which is why I'm here.

I'm currently using Code Blocks as an editor under Ubuntu (via virtualbox) to do embedded ARM9 development.  Works okay, I've poked at trying to get debugging to work, and haven't been able to sort that in the time allotted.

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