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KDevelop open source integrated development environment
(Last updated: Dec. 19, 2000)

The KDevelop project was begun in 1998 to build an easy to use C/C++ Integrated Development Enviroment (IDE) for Unix. Since then, the KDevelop IDE is publicly available under the GPL and supports KDE/Qt, GNOME, plain C, and C++ projects.

The main reason for the creation of KDevelop was the lack of a modern, competitive solution for application development. Although Unix systems provide the user with a good and stable environment, including the X Window Sytem, modern tools available under other operating systems are missing.

Whereas hard-core Unix-developers state that Emacs and vi are the ultimate solution, KDE provides developers with a complete application framework together with the Qt library. The fact of the commercial availability of Qt also gets the interest of commercial development parties. Therefore the KDevelop project wants to . . .
  1. provide a code-writing environment for free
  2. ease the use of standard development tools such as autoconf and automake
  3. offer a graphical dialogeditor that reduces GUI design cycles
  4. provide developers with direct, uncomplicated access to documentation written by the team or by third parties. This includes documentation for the KDE and QT APIs.
The KDevelop IDE provides the following tools for C/C++ application development:
  1. a wizard-based projectgenerator that builds configurable frameworks for various application types (KDE1,KDE2,OpenGL(tm),terminal based...)
  2. a coding environment including:
    • a syntax-highlighting editor
    • a class browser and viewer
    • various file viewers
    • a internal debugger
  3. a documentation system for direct access to HTML-online documentation, including 5 handbooks for KDE/Qt development and fast search
  4. a dialogeditor that fits the need for rapid construction of user interfaces, embedded completely into the development environment
  5. works with the mime-type of files to start automagically the appropriate application inside KDevelop, like KIconEdit for bitmaps or KDbg for executables
  6. CVS support for project development
  7. support for uncomplicated localization of projects
  8. translation into 17 languages
  9. many additional features such as autosaving, commandline-passing etc.
This enables programmers to reduce development cycles to a minimum, while it offers the flexibility to work as they want at the same time.

Although KDevelop requires KDE and Qt to work, you can as well use it for any other C++ project. It's designed as a C/C++ development environment in the first place.


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