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How about a stable version of CB
Morphius Faydal:
--- Quote from: quBit on November 19, 2007, 01:53:40 am --- Well people, my point seems to be understood. C::B seems or promises to be the single viable solution for a free IDE on the Windows platform. DevCPP is old and not maintained any more. wxDevCPP is almost DevCPP and is too tightly coupled with wxWidgets which, although still with a large user-base, is an obsolete framework (new lightweight toolkits which target strictly GUI, such as SmartWin or Win32-Generics which make use of modern C++ techniques, are preferred).
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You do realize That Code::Blocks is a wxWidgets project, right? And what's wrong with wxWidgets?
thomas:
--- Quote from: Morphius Faydal on November 20, 2007, 10:20:52 pm ---And what's wrong with wxWidgets?
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Don't get me started 8)
MortenMacFly:
--- Quote from: thomas on November 21, 2007, 10:09:40 am ---
--- Quote from: Morphius Faydal on November 20, 2007, 10:20:52 pm ---And what's wrong with wxWidgets?
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Don't get me started 8)
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Please someone: Block any further comments of Thomas concerning wxWidgets... faaaast!!! ;-)
LeRoi:
I totally agree with "quBit", "XayC" and "cacb"
Code::blocks is a great IDE, with great features, and native execution on multiple plateforms
but, trying to get familiar with CB, I found my self obliged to mention some points about code::blocks :
* the latest stable release of CB goes back to Oct 25, 2005, wich -as a personal point of view- is a long time, espacially when considering all the new features that have been implemented since that date
--- Quote ---I love seeing updates every day, is great to know this is a really active project
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* well, that's true, but no one will update it's CB svn build every day !!, maybe to get rid of a corrected bug, but than again, he may get new ones, and you all know that the last thing that a programmer wants to take car of, is the instability of the IDE(I'm not saying CB nighty builds are instables)
when I tried to install a nightly build the first time, I got some real problems, with CB, the wxWidgets and the compiler(s)
Poeple are often waiting for an all-in-one package. There are so many steps, and time to make a helloworld wxwidget application that it can be frustrating to any new comer to CB. compiling wxwidgets with the custom settings, installing and configuring the compiler, setting up the debugger(a nightmare in somecases) to finally get CB to debug correctly an application.
when compared to MS VS or Delphi, ..., you write the code, you type F9 and bingo ....
Im not writing this just to criticize CB and it's authors, I like CB, I really like it for many many reasons, and that's why I'm posting here, so after saying my points, I will make some suggestions :D :
* I'm not against daily updates, but strongly against 2years+ stable updates ! 6 mounths for stable releases seems to be a great cycle .
* why not to put more effort on the wiki, it's very important for new developpers, and sometimes, it lacks for informations, and the user have to go through the forum ...
well nothing to says more, you are doing a great job, keep working, and I'm hoping to see a a stable version soon :lol:
dje:
--- Quote from: LeRoi on November 21, 2007, 05:11:59 pm ---but no one will update it's CB svn build every day !!
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I do !
Less than 2 mn to be up to date, it is worth !
Dje
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