Re: C++ IDE with graphical application building and good portability

From:
James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sun, 13 Jan 2008 02:44:17 -0800 (PST)
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On Jan 13, 7:44 am, efriedNoS...@yahoo.com (EricF) wrote:

In article <4788bd45$0$2109$edfad...@dtext02.news.tele.dk>,
"Ole Nielsby" <ole.niel...@tekare-you-spamminglogisk.dk>
wrote:>Lars Uffmann <a...@nurfuerspam.de> wrote:


    [...]

My 2 cents: If you have a small application without a lot of
classes, you don't want these guis. You probably don't need a
gui. A decent text editor and command line builds are better.

If you have a large application and lots of classes, a gui is
useful. Expect some headaches. You may be better off with the
gui as a text editor and building/debugging with the command
line tools.


For editing code (or text documentation), a classical editor is
probably the ideal tool. For building, you need a command line
interface anyway---you'll want to trigger your complete rebuilds
at a time when no one is using the system. For anything but the
smallest project, however, you'll really want some graphical
documentation---things like class diagrams, etc. And that
supposed some sort of graphic tool.

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