Re: NetBeans 6.7.1

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Lindsay
Mathieson<lindsay.mathieson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Anyone tried the new NetBeans release? It supports Qt 4.x Development out
> of the box - integrated build support, code refactoring etc. I've had a
> brief play with it and *very* nice - right up there with Visual Studio
> feature wise. I haven't tried yet but I'm sure it could be used for KDE
> builds as well, just have to add the KDE Libs manually.
>
> I'm sure once its it finished and tweaked KDevelop4 would be preferable,
> but NetBeans is pretty good.

Pros:

- RAM and speek are OK

- Embedded issue tracking is very nice. For now there is support for
Bugzilla, only.

- Supports refactoring

- Very well integrated with Sun's open source forge (Project Kenai).
It'd be nice to have this kind of integration with Gitorious in
KDevelop for Qt and KDE stuff.

- In-application chat. I thought this would be easy to add to KDevelop
but it seems that there is no IRC KPart for now in either KDE IRC
client (Konversation, KVIRC, KsIRC, etc).

- Supports cross-compilation and changing tools
(compiler/assembler/linker/etc) easily. It'd be nice to have this in
KDevelop.

Cons:

- No support for CMake (or even QMake), only makefiles.

- Completion is much better in KDevelop.

- Opens Qt Designer, Linguist, etc as a new window, out of (not
embedded in )NetBeans for .ui, .ts, etc. I have two monitors and at
first I though it was not opening forms, etc, until I noticed they
were being opened in the other display.

- No KDE stuff, although you said it could be easily added.

- No git, you need to use an external, unstable plugin (nbgit).

- Only simple profiling and no Valgrind/Callgrind/Massif/etc integration


I'll stick to KDevelop trunk :-)

-- 
Pau Garcia i Quiles
http://www.elpauer.org
(Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)
 
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