Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 15:05:17 01/08/03
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On January 08, 2003 at 01:52:11, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>On January 05, 2003 at 21:29:58, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>I don't think so. If you go to the official Kdevelop website you will see that
>>version 2.1.4 is supposed to fix that particular bug that I have described.
>>
>>I guess the bug had not been found because they had tested on a system on which
>>it did not appear (maybe it is related to default PATH variable and that
>>variable is not set the same way under Mandrake and under RedHat).
>>
>>But anyway this bug has been officially recognized and that's the only one 2.1.4
>>fixes.
>>
>>Now 2.1.4 introduces another problem which confirms that they (the authors of
>>Kdevelop) do not test their creature on RedHat linux. That's very unprofessional
>>and I hope they will realize that serious testing is absolutely necessary.
>>
>>I think this problem is also PATH-related, which would explain once again why
>>they did not find it on their non-RedHat systems.
>>
>>The project manager genrates a script that is broken. When you try to make the
>>project, there is a Makefile that cannot be found.
>>
>>To fix this you have to edit manually the config.status file and replace a
>>"./Makefile" by "Makefile".
>>
>>You have to do that for every new project you create. I fear that I will have to
>>do it again every time I change an option in the project, because the script is
>>re-generated when you do so.
>>
>>I'm not even completely sure that this fixes definitely this Kdevelop 2.1.4...
>>
>>
>>
>> Christophe
>
>
>I see. Well, that's certainly a bummer.
>
>I think the problem is that they stopped developing KDevelop 2.x back in last
>August. They are all working on KDevelop 3.0, which is in its third "alpha"
>(which is before beta). It might be that KDevelop is not the best choice for
>you until 3.0 gets released.
>
>Dave
If you follow this logic you shouldn't either use KDE 3 because some day there
will be KDE 4. :)
It's a neverending story.
I still hope that Kdevelop 2.x is in some useable state and that if necessary I
will find workarounds or fixes for the problem I will (certainly) encounter.
Christophe
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