[Qt-creator] General Usage Question

[Danny Price]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Andre Poenitz <
andre.poenitz at mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 03:34:25PM +0000, Danny Price wrote:
> > I'm fairly certain both VisualStudio 1.0 and Eclipse 1.0 had the ability
> to
> > rename source files.
>
> Danny,
>
> if the developers of VS and Eclipse had enough resources to spent to
> integrate cross-platform, cross-VCS file manager capabilities, so, well,
> I admit it, I envy them.
>

I would consider the abilty to rename a file more fundamental to an IDE than
supporting every major source control solution under the sun. Source-control
support in IDEs is generally mediocre, if it exists at all, and most
developers use dedicated source control clients or the command line. And
dedicated solutions will always beat a one-size-fits all IDE.


> I don't have these resources, and the ones I have I rather spent not on
> duplicating functionality that is already available in abundance on
> everybody's desktop - at least not as long as there is a long wish list
> of more important things.
>

I appreciate that. And cross-platform development is hard. But there is no
roadmap for QtCreator that I can see - do you have an estimate for when this
issue may be addressed?


>
> Everybody who wants to have a file manager can have that rather easily,
> VCS integration inclusive. Switching applications every now and then
> might be inconvenient and cumbersome, but it's a process that can be
> handled resonably well by most programmers.  On the other hand, not all
> of them can read the contents of a QHash by looking at the d pointer in
> gdb, so at least for me it's pretty clear what's going to the top and
> what to the bottom of the todo list...
>
> Andre'
>
>
Ah so the sticking point is making it work with source-control?

I want to re-iterate that I love Creator. The editor is fantastic,
hands-down the best I've encountered. And the debugger, while still rough
around the edges is also above-average (better than XCode at least). And the
ability to take a project to another platform and just run it is a marvel
that many have tried and failed.

But we're all developers on this list and Creator's abilities here only
highlight it's basic flaws further.
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