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KDevelop 4.7.0 Released

Posted by samzenpus on from the check-it-out dept.

KDE Community (3396057) writes "KDevelop team is proud to announce the final release of KDevelop 4.7.0. This release is special, as it marks the end of the KDE4 era for us. As such, KDevelop 4.7.0 comes with a long-term stability guarantee. The CMake support was improved and extended to ensure that all idioms needed for KF5 development are available. The unit test support UI was polished and several bugs fixed. In the same direction, some noteworthy issues with the QtHelp integration were addressed. KDevelop's PHP language support now handles namespaces better and can understand traits aliases. Furthermore, some first fruits of the Google summer of code projects are included in this release. These changes pave the path toward better support for cross compile toolchains. Feature-wise, KDevelop now officially supports the Bazaar (bzr) version control system. On the performance front, it was possible to greatly reduce the memory footprint when loading large projects with several thousand files in KDevelop. Additionally, the startup should now be much faster."

3 of 48 comments (clear)

  1. Re:And KDevelope is what exactly? by armanox · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's something that's general knowledge for the majority of Slashdot readers, and doesn't need to be explained in the summary. Also, the Slashdot target audience is capable of using a search engine to look up something if they don't know what it is.

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    I'm starting to think GNU is the problem with "GNU/Linux" these days.
  2. Re:And KDevelope is what exactly? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nope. I've never even heard of it - and having read that announcement I'm still no clearer what it is, what it does or whether I should be interested in it.

    So you constitue the majority of slashdot users?

    FYI: It is an Integrated Development Environment targeted for Qt and KDE development with C and C++.

  3. Re:And KDevelope is what exactly? by ip_vjl · · Score: 5, Informative

    There is a huge amount of FOSS that has an entire "front" web page that tells people in exquisite detail what changes have been made, who contributed, how others can get involved and what bugs are outstanding without ever mentioning what the hell the project does, or what benefits it brings the world. This just adds one more to the tally.

    It's not the project's fault that the submitter/editors linked to the release notes rather than the main page.

    From the main page:
    "KDevelop is a free, open source IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, Max OS X and other Unix flavors.
    It is a feature-full, plugin extensible IDE for C/C++ and other programming languages.
    It is based on KDevPlatform, and the KDE and Qt libraries and is under development since 1998."

    So, your statement about "adding one more to the tally" of projects that do not "mention what the hell the project does" is incorrect.

    Though, I would agree with the sentiment higher up, that editors really should be including a brief summary on many of these things, even though I knew what the project is, myself.