No working IDE in FreeBSD!

Quentin Schwerkolt develloper.unix at hotmail.fr
Thu Feb 23 15:57:08 UTC 2012


Ok, but I think an IDE that can easily compile projects with clang is 
not a bad idea.

On 02/23/12 15:38, Dan Daley wrote:
> The I in IDE stands for Integrated.  An IDE is an "editor with more general
> niftiness" by definition.  Unix can be a development environment, but is not an
> IDE.
>
> Dan.
>
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>
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> ________________________________
> From: Jan Mikkelsen<janm at transactionware.com>
> To: O. Hartmann<ohartman at mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>
> Cc: Current FreeBSD<freebsd-current at freebsd.org>
> Sent: Thu, February 23, 2012 7:47:37 AM
> Subject: Re: No working IDE in FreeBSD!
>
> Unix is the original IDE. FreeBSD is a good modern implementation.
>
> If you don't think that's enough, you need to say what you're really looking
> for, rather than just an IDE. It sounds like you're after an editor with more
> general niftiness. Visual Slickedit?
>
> On 23/02/2012, at 10:22 PM, O. Hartmann wrote:
>
>> Several time ago I tried to do some development within an IDE, not even
>> for lectural and educational purposes. Since most of our software is
>> written in C/C++ and OpenCL, I highly prefered ANJUTA, since this IDE
>> was highly customizable, flexible and even FreeBSD's ancient outdated
>> version in the ports suited our needs.
>>
>> Anjuta does not compile anymore for a long time. I do not know why, I
>> filed a PR (ports/161494). So I was looking for an alternative.
>>
>> I looked for some alternatives. The IDE should be configurable to use
>> CLANG. ECLIPSE is to large and it does not fit my purpose. I tried
>> devel/CodeBlocks, but CodeBlocks is narrowminded in terms of
>> configuration of an alternative compiler and I find it really hard and
>> not intuitiv to reconfigure the usage of CLANG.
>>
>> devel/anjuta is broken, so no chance. I also tried KDevelop, since many
>> of our Linux based scientists feel good having this very popular IDE,
>> but it is marked "broken" on FreeBSD.
>>
>> Before I waste more time on searching for a suitable IDE apart ANJUTA,
>> I'd like to ask people here what alternative they would suggest if the
>> focus is devel/anjuta. Eclipse is no way, KDevelop is broken, CodeBlocks
>> is incapable of being easily adapted to CLANG.
>>
>> Befor people tend to start a flame war: yes, I'm fine with vi and I'm
>> also fine with vim/gvim, but our students need to have the opportunity
>> to work with an IDE and our projects are partially that large, so an IDE
>> is needed.
>>
>> Thanks a lot for your patience and recommendations in advance.
>>
>> Oliver
>>
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