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Newbee: what is the codeblocks future?

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PaulS:
And again it's the "proper" debugger & the "proper" python scripts.  No pointer to what these are.  I already swallowed my pride and admitted that I couldn't figure it out from the wiki & forums.  Has CodeBlocks really devolved into just a toy for the in crowd? 

Why not Visual Studio?  When I got into CodeBlocks, many years ago, I was seriously considering migrating to Linux in some flavor.  I still might but it is probably no for me.  In any case I rather like Codelocks & WxWidgets.

Obfuscated is a marvelously apt user name.

krix:
Thanks for the answers, I will try to build the latest svn.


--- Quote from: oBFusCATed on October 19, 2012, 12:03:01 am ---
--- Quote from: krix on October 18, 2012, 11:08:42 pm ---How many people contribute to CB?

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Too few unfortunately...

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Hmmm, what does this mean? A handful of people that invests a few nightly hours now and then?
Or does anyone do CB development as part of a money-earning business?
I am sorry to sound sceptical, but I have tried too many promising open source projects over the years, that just couldn't hold the pace.


--- Quote from: oBFusCATed on October 19, 2012, 12:03:01 am ---
--- Quote from: krix on October 18, 2012, 11:08:42 pm ---What are the plans for the next release? I know no date has been published, but there must be some list of "planned features"?

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The features are almost done, nothing is hidden as our svn is public.

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So what you allready have done is not hidden, I can walk through svn.
But what you plan to do is a big secret?

oBFusCATed:

--- Quote from: krix on October 19, 2012, 12:30:58 pm ---I am sorry to sound sceptical, but I have tried too many promising open source projects over the years, that just couldn't hold the pace.

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Then use Visual studio, Eclipse or XCode...


--- Quote from: krix on October 19, 2012, 12:30:58 pm ---So what you allready have done is not hidden, I can walk through svn.
But what you plan to do is a big secret?

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Yes, because even I don't know what would be added in the future, even by me.
Feature additions in C::B are driven by developer's needs. So if I need some feature I'll add it.

I've redirected you to svn, because there you can see the progress since 10.05 and we are almost ready with 12.xx or 13.xx release, so
you can see the improvements since 10.05.

krix:

--- Quote from: oBFusCATed on October 19, 2012, 01:03:25 pm ---Then use Visual studio, Eclipse or XCode...

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... of which only Eclipse runs on linux.
But yes, I will definately give Eclipse a try, and in my comparison of the two, I think it is deeply relevant how the development is organized and funded. Sounds like you do not find this relevant.


--- Quote from: oBFusCATed on October 19, 2012, 01:03:25 pm ---Yes, because even I don't know what would be added in the future, even by me.
Feature additions in C::B are driven by developer's needs. So if I need some feature I'll add it.

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Ok, understood.
It confirms to me that the work is driven by relatively few people, whose motivation is their daily work and needs.
This approach for development will obviously have some advantages, but it must be very hard to work together towards major changes.
And how do you decide what CB should NOT do, with that approach?
Anyway, I don't expect an answer from you on this, but I hope you can agree that these questions are relevant for a guy that wants a c++ IDE for linux, but don't consider himself a good enough programmer to be contributing with new features.

MortenMacFly:

--- Quote from: krix on October 19, 2012, 02:07:41 pm ---I hope you can agree that these questions are relevant for a guy that wants a c++ IDE for linux, but don't consider himself a good enough programmer to be contributing with new features.

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...and probably making things over-complicated.

You should actually question yourself what are the project needs you need to fulfil, i.e. what platforms, what compilers, what SDK's and then decide that IDE to use.

I never heard of somebody deciding upon an IDE by how many devs work on it and how development is going on in the first place. But maybe I get things wrong...

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