Re: [cdt-dev] CDT and Qt Creator

[Pawel Piech <pawel.piech@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All we've done so far is rather vendor-specific.  What we would like to see in CDT is the ability to isolate and turn off various features using capabilities: e.g. build, static analysis, debuggers, etc.  To accomplish this we would likely need to look at dependencies between these various CDT components and see if we can isolate them better.  However, we haven't invested any time in this yet.
-Pawel



Paul Beusterien wrote:

Hi Pawel,

Thanks for the response.  Are there any available artifacts from the stripped-down IDE investigation?  Any effort estimates?

Regards,
Paul

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Pawel Piech <pawel.piech@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Paul,
Complexity is a common complaint about Eclipse-based tools (not especially limited to C - development tools).  I don't know of any efforts to overhaul the UI, but I expect that there would be a lot of interest out there for it.  For Wind River's part, we are investigating creating a stripped-down version of the IDE specifically targeted at Debugging use cases, but I know we won't be able to get far without support from the community.

Cheers,
Pawel

Paul Beusterien wrote:

Hi CDT community,

I'm responsible for the tools strategy at the Symbian Foundation.  Like the Eclipse Foundation, Symbian depends on the contributions from open source communities to drive its mobile device platform technology forward.

I'm curious if you have any thoughts about one of the challenges we're facing with understanding/determining the direction for Symbian C++ development tools.

There are two open source communities vying for the Symbian C++ developer - Qt Creator and Carbide (based on CDT).

Carbide's investments have been primarily focused on adding features to give more power to device creators. While it has become very feature-full, it has also become very complex and hard to learn, especially for developers that want to just build simple mobile apps.

Qt Creator is a targeted C++ development environment with a big emphasis on usability.  For example, it has rigorous hurdles to add a button or menu item. Now, it is rapidly adapting to improve its mobile development capabilities.

Thus, we currently have a fragmented C++ developer story at Symbian. 

It is unlikely that Qt Creator will ever support the rich set of features that Carbide currently provides to the power user.

Are there any initiatives will enable CDT based IDEs to lower its learning curve and better support the needs of a simple C++ application developer?

Thanks,
Paul

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Paul Beusterien
Development Tools Manager
Symbian Foundation
Foster City, California USA
twitter: paulbeusterien

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