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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.
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