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Re: Programming/Linux



Alex Shnitman wrote:

> Hi everyone.
>
> I'd like to ask you for your experience with various C++ IDEs for Linux.
> I've been long searching for a decent programming envoronment for Linux,
> something like <sigh> Microsoft DevStudio. These are the ones that I
> worked with:
>
> - Code Crusader (jcc), http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~jafl/jx/progs.html
> It's mainly a class browser. It doesn't have anything else, besides a very
> simple text editor which I replaced with xvim. The class browser is pretty
> successful, but I'd expect more from an IDE - for example, an editor with
> syntax highlighting, or some decent project management.
>
> - WipeOut, http://www.softwarebuero.de/wipeout-eng.html
> It looks pretty good from the first glance, but by the moment you're ready
> to take the second one, it has already crashed. I have the latest version,
> and I really can't figure out the reason for its crashes.  (I did try the
> older versions and the result was the same.) Once it was even worse -
> instead of just crashing it would completely freeze X: neither the
> keyboard nor the mouse responded to my pleas, and the only key that worked
> was that black one on the front panel of the computer case. I downgraded
> my libc (from 5.4.x to 5.3.x) and WipeOut started just crashing. Is there
> libc 5.5 which I can upgrade to in order to try to solve the problem? Is
> there anything else I can try?
>
> - Scriptum, http://www.inter-soft.com/html/products/scriptum.html
> Well, it looks rather cool. Its editor is really amusing, and the
> interface generally looks very good. The problem is that none of the more
> advanced features work... Whenever I try to start the class browser, it
> complains that it doesn't have some definition file. Whenever I choose the
> manu command that apparently creates that definition file, it complains
> about a missing program (that is supposed to generate that file), and I
> don't know where to get that program. The software is distributed in
> binary form (no sources), and the tar.gzips don't contain that thing. So
> unfortunately Scriptum in its current form is not really useful.
>
> To conclude, I'd like to hear about your experience with similar software,
> or alternatively explain me how the hell do people manage to write big, or
> even not so big, C++ projects without a decent programming environment. It
> really makes me sick to think that Linux, The Programmer's OS, is lacking
> such an important thing like a decent IDE which even Windows 95, The OS
> For The Dumb, does have.
>
> ---
>   Alex Shnitman ...................... alexsh@linux.org.il
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