FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: Developer Edition Vmware Image

[Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>]

Karl vom Dorff wrote:
> Thanks for these comments. Perhaps I'll contact Access and see what they 
> say. It's probably pretty difficult to program without BeIDE.

Hm. I know there is quite a few people around who like to use such an IDE. 
However, all the apps I have ever written and all code I am writing for 
Haiku is done with Pe and compiled on the command line. I believe the only 
thing I am really missing is the ability to double click errors and have 
the editor jump to the file/line. Maybe some more which I am ignorant of... 
anyways, to say "It's probably pretty difficult to program without BeIDE." 
is distorting reality a bit IMHO. :-) In fact, for large scale projects, I 
would guess a build environment such as we use for Haiku itself is much 
more powerful. There is even some effort by Oliver Tappe and others to 
integreate native Jamfile support for "projects" into Pe. I find that much 
more appealing. That being said, IDEs on other platforms do offer 
additional value, like a GUI constructor and such. This is a different 
story, but I don't really see what *BeIDE* adds over a cool 
makefile/jamfile engine + Pe. Comments welcome, of course!

> Anyways, I've removed the packages in question from both of these images 
> as well as applied the other suggestions.

Thanks!

Best regards,
-Stephan