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You’re welcome to KDevelop!

apol — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 01:28:13 +0000

Sometimes it’s hard to get started using a tool, some people call it white page syndrome, in KDevelop we had the gray page syndrome:

I guess you see what I mean.

To solve this problem we discussed many times about creating some way to Kickstart a KDevelop session properly, this is what I came up with. It’s nothing very different from what others do, but it’s ours, so that makes it immensely awesome. I guess you’ll understand about it easy by putting a video, looking forward to your feedback!

KDevelop 4.3.1 Released with improved GCC 4.7 compliance

Milian Wolff — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:58:45 +0000

Hey all!

KDevelop 4.3.1 is out! Go read the announcement and update.

Many thanks to all contributors, you rock :)

KDevelop 4.3.0 - Go Get It!

Milian Wolff — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:21:12 +0000

Finally I managed to get my job as the release dude done: http://kdevelop.org/kdevelop/kdevelop-430-final-released-basic-c11-support

Thanks to all the developers who sent in patches! The same goes to our loyal users for their continued support and bug reports :)

It’s really fun to work on KDevelop and - I’ve said it many times before - I’m really looking forward to our next releases! Even now our code in the master branches has some neat commits that make the eventual 4.4 release something to look forward to!

KDevelop Forum & Screenshots

Milian Wolff — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:44:34 +0000

Hey all,

following the recent blog post on getting a forum for KDE software I decided to get one setup for KDevelop. Minutes after, it was all done, we now have a KDevelop Forum. Feel free to use it for discussions and user support around KDevelop and related applications. Development discussions etc. will still happen on our mailing list though.

To get the forum rolling, I’ve had the idea to use it for some crowdsourcing of KDevelop screenshots, see also the post on the KDevelop website: http://kdevelop.org/community/new-forum-screenshots .

KDevelop 4.3.0 RC 1 Released

Milian Wolff — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 16:45:59 +0000

Hey all!

Please help us test KDevelop 4.3 RC1! Grab it while it’s hot: http://kdevelop.org/43/kdevelop-430-rc-1-released

This release comes with some more bug fixes and better support for some C++11 language features.

Cheers!

KDevelop 4.3.0 Beta 2 Released

Milian Wolff — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:10:59 +0000

Hey all!

I’ve just posted the news on the KDevelop website: KDevelop 4.3.0 Beta 2 is released!

Please test it and report feedback as usual. I think it’s safe to assume that we will release 4.3.0 final in about 2-4 weeks from now.

Considering that my university semester is nearing its end, I will finally have more royal hacking time again! I’ll continue to squash bugs and improve the performance of KDevelop of course :) Most definitely I’ll try to further improve the C++11 support. But maybe I finally have some time again to work on “something bigger”, like helping Miha Čančula in writing a kick-ass unit-test integration for KDevelop (see unittest branches). Then I plan to finally release some more of our “playground” plugins, most notably CSS language support and QMake project management…

Stay tuned for a bright KDevelop future :]

PS: I’ll step up as a mentor for a KDevelop GSOC this year, yet I’m still wondering about a proper topic… Ideas?

Road to KDevelop 4.3, Beta Available

apol — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:22:11 +0000

Hi!
It’s been probably too much time since we announced a KDevelop version for the last time, but hey! Here we are, as alive as ever!

Actually it hasn’t been a quiet year, there’s been quite a lot of development going on, specially with regard to stabilization, improved integration facilities and, of course, Milian’s c++11 work, which is not ready yet, but much closer than it used to.

Long story short, here we can find the packages to compile it here, together with some verbose changelogs in case you’re interested.

Also you can wait for your-favorite-distro to package it, but more on that in the future!

KDevelop4 Custom-Buildsystem moved to git.kde.org

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:05:48 +0000

Today the repository for the Custom-BuildSystem plugin moved to git.kde.org. So you’ll have to adjust your remote urls accordingly. The right url can be found easily on the new project page of the plugin. I’ll delete the gitorious project sometime next week so people are not getting confused too much.

Custom Buildsystem Plugin released!

Sat, 04 Dec 2010 08:38:33 +0000

Its been quite a while since I blogged, but this is really worth it.

I was talked into doing a first release of a KDevelop 4 plugin I’ve worked for some time now (thanks Milian ). There’s been already a blog entry about it before that highlighted the features the plugin has and what its intended use is. Just a quick recap: It allows to setup executables to be run for build/configure/install/… and configure include paths and defines per build directory so that projects using something other than make/cmake/qmake can be nicely worked on with KDevelop.

Additionally it now properly supports multiple build-directories and switching between them by making sure that the language support is re-parsing the project to update the data based on the new includes. I’m using
that now quite a bit to switch between my Qt3 and Qt4 build dirsectories.

Reporting bugs has also been improved by re-using KDE infrastructure instead of mailing me directly which I almost always forget about… So in case you do find a bug or have a feature suggestions, simply file a bug against kdevelop (if possible directly choose the “custom-buildsystem” component in bugzilla) and I’ll try to take care of it.

The source code is currently still hosted on gitorious.org but will move to git.kde.org soon. I just wanted to have a release out in the wild to demonstrate my willingness to maintain this plugin and hence be able to move to the stable-plugins subproject within KDevelop (yeah they setup rules for that ).

You can find the source code on any of the KDE mirrors and here are the hashsums to verify you’ve got the proper package:

MD5Sum: 2d373002ddac5f5c23f67620bcbcc63d kdevelop-custom-buildsystem-1.0.0.tar.bz2
SHA1Sum: 25e08a67f653eae5210ad360c7cb559b2178e0cd kdevelop-custom-buildsystem-1.0.0.tar.bz2