[Qt-creator] Visual Studio Compiler/Debugger support ?

[Andre Poenitz]

On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 12:18:13AM -0300, Wilton sampaio wrote:
> Well,
> Let try to shape my question to real English.
> 
> The MinGW for windows IS with development HALTED , the latest version is
> uses a ancient GCC and GDB build. The tdragon 4.3 builds are Non-usable.

Could you be so kind and elaborate a bit on that? There have been a few
messages - sent both to the list and privately - that tdragon's gcc build
is the greatest thing since sliced bread and that it is the one and only
thing that has to been supported. Now you label it as "non-usable".

For a non-Windows person this pretty much looks like whatever is done,
there will be someone very unhappy and vocal about it.

> [...]
> I prefer the second option, and as i known , the Visual C++ Express comes
> with a fullfetured compiler and debugger, and it can compile Qt fine.
> And qouting Qt developers(
> http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2007/09/18/qtwindows-open-source-edition-to-support-vs-express/)
> : "The Visual Studio Express environment is just so much superior and
> easier to use for existing Windows developers compared to what MinGW
> provides."

I understand that refers to the environment, not the compiler (alone?),
and stems from a time where there was no Qt Creator on Windows. I also
see that the third comment to it is "Huh?? Who cares about Visual Studio
Express? Eclipse rocks!" - so also in this case the asserted superiority
does not go undisputed by the public.

Don't get me wrong, I am just trying to understand the situation.
Declaring three or four systems on Windows "primary" does not look like
a good investment of Creator's core development resources. 

On the Linux side (which is often chastised for being "fragmented") such
"problems" are typically solved by the distributions. If there is
interest in having some software on a certain distribution, somebody
will just create a package, often without even telling the makers of the
software. And that's fine, it's how it is supposed to be.  I wonder
whether this system could work on Windows, too...

Andre'