[mythtv] Best IDE to browse code

[hendrixski]

Florin,

Interesting.  I could never quite get Qt3 to work right in Eclipse, it 
would have trouble with the libraries, and wouldn't autocomplete a lot 
of the native mythtv stuff for me.  I've asked on here and IRC a few 
times how to set it up better.  Do you have a manual you would 
recommend?  Or would you care to share with us any tips and tricks you did?

Eclipse is my favorite IDE, and it works pretty fast on my 2.4 ghz Dell 
which is like 3 or so years old.  I just did a project for a customer, 
that was my first time programming in PHP, and Eclipse made it a 
painless experience by having pretty much the entire language reference 
on hand, and a debugger built in.

If you want to speed up compiling, and have several computers, try 
DISTCC.  :-)

Cheers
Hendrixski

florin baiduc wrote:
> I'm using Eclipse (including QT support :) ). It spanks any other IDE 
> (both free and commercial) at least for my needs, as there is always a 
> plugin just doing the task I want it to do...
> Better have a very good machine though, or else you'll get old just 
> waiting for Eclipse to start. By good I mean a t least a dual core 
> with 2 GBRam. And yes, I prefer to compile from command line (not from 
> within Eclipse) as the full compile time gets down from around one 
> hour to less than 25 minutes :).
> BR.
>
> On Jan 11, 2008 5:11 AM, hendrixski <hendrixski at storsint.com 
> <mailto:hendrixski at storsint.com>> wrote:
>
>     David Schmidt wrote:
>     > On Jan 10, 2008 9:58 AM, Stuart Auchterlonie
>     <stuarta at squashedfrog.net <mailto:stuarta at squashedfrog.net>> wrote:
>     >
>     >> Matthias Burtscher wrote:
>     >>
>     >>> Hello everybody!
>     >>>
>     >>> Im white new to C++ but I want to have look at the MythTV code
>     to find out some things about the basic functionality of MythTV.
>     >>>
>     >>> What is the best IDE to do that. I just want to view the code,
>     but also have class structure and the functionality of jumping
>     from one point to the other (especially function calls).
>     >>>
>     >>> And how can I import all the files in the right structure into
>     the IDE?
>     >>>
>     >>>
>     >> kdevelop does a decent job
>     >>
>     >> Stuart
>     >>
>     >>
>     >
>     > If you have a fairly beefy machine (about 2.75 GHz with 2 Gig RAM),
>     > Eclipse is the "king" of IDEs, but it sucks gutter water on any
>     less
>     > than that.
>     >
>     > I agree with Stuart that kdevelop is a nice alternative for more
>     > modest specs....
>     >
>
>     Yeah, Eclipse is hands down the *best* IDE's in terms of most
>     wide-ranging functionality.  The price for that is that it gets
>     rather
>     huge.  Especially if you load a few languages in there like
>     Python, C++,
>     Ruby, Java, etc. etc. It's like potato-chips.  You can never have
>     just one.
>
>     Despite all of my accolades for Java  and Eclipse, I have to say that
>     for mythtv development,  KDevelop is the best.  In fact, I never
>     got Qt3
>     to work quite right with Eclipse, but out of box it's there in
>     KDevelop.
>
>
>

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