FC6 Development Tools

jbannon · #1 24th January 2007, 01:11 AM

So I've just ordered my FC6 disks and they will be coming within the next couple of days (downloading and burning is a pain so I buy mine). My question here is related to C & C++ development tools. Given the rather poor availability of decent gnome-based tools for FC4 & FC5, is FC6 any better? I've read good things about the Anjuta latest release, is that in extras or is it still the older one? What about UML? The only tools I could find in FC5 were KDE or Java-based. Is this still the same?

pete_1967 · #2 24th January 2007, 04:12 AM

It's got Vim 7 and usual suspects (gcc etc.), what else there's to know or anyone would need

jbannon · #3 24th January 2007, 01:34 PM

Vim -

I only use that from the command line. I've just answered my own question. Installed FC6 this morning and, after a few minor hiccoughs, discovered that the latest version of Anjuta is available so I'll use that.

Flounder · #4 24th January 2007, 07:36 PM

In my experience the GUI IDEs aren't all to helpful. I prefer emacs and vim when I need to change something quick.

bryancole · #5 24th January 2007, 07:44 PM

I recommend Eclipse+CDT plugin. I tend not use the Native Eclipse in FC6 (as heroic an effort as it is), but go for the Sun JRE and get the latest Eclipse & plugins from www.eclipse.org.

CDT is great if you're using GNU tools (not so great otherwise maybe). The great thing about eclipse is all the other things you can do with it as well as C++: python coding, database modelling, UML, database report design. I even herad it can do java... In fact it embodies many of the ideas which made emacs great (extensible, modular architecture etc. etc.), but with a pleasant GUI.

jbannon · #6 25th January 2007, 12:19 AM

I'll have a look at Eclipse as well. last time I tried it though it was really bad, maybe because I was using the FC version - which is next to useless IMHO.

sleep`walker · #7 26th January 2007, 01:57 PM

I will recommend you Code::Blocks, especially if you like wx, but it's not gnome-based. Give a try to KDevelop or VDK Builder. They're nice, too.

jbannon · #8 26th January 2007, 02:37 PM

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Originally Posted by sleep`walker

I will recommend you Code::Blocks, especially if you like wx, but it's not gnome-based. Give a try to KDevelop or VDK Builder. They're nice, too.

I know about Kdevelop and it is nice and there is a KDE UML modeler as well. Trouble is I'm running Gnome and, although KDE does run reasonably, it's a tad slow to load and doesn't really integrate particularly well with the Gnome desktop.

Code::Blocks I had a very brief look at and it looks OK too but doesn't really offer anything different from Anjuta.

VDK builder isn't one I've seen, so I'll maybe have a look at it and another look at Code::Blocks.

Thanks.

jbannon · #9 27th January 2007, 05:27 AM

In the end I decided on KDE tools. It's a lot easier!

RMcG · #10 27th January 2007, 07:55 AM

I am new to the Fedora system. I am running KDE because I like it better than gnome. I was wondering what I should use for dynamic web sites, if I am used to Dreamweaver?,.. any help on that?
Thx

jbannon · #11 27th January 2007, 01:26 PM

Normally Kdewebdev (Quanta+) is used under KDE but it is different from Dreamweaver.

RMcG · #12 27th January 2007, 05:26 PM

Ok,. I'll give that a try,. are there any others?

jbannon · #13 27th January 2007, 07:07 PM

Not that I know of but others with more knowledge will be able to advise better.

ryptyde · #14 27th January 2007, 07:53 PM

You will want to try Mono,I think MonoDevelop is installed with the developement packages IIRC. I have been following a tutorial that has been in the Linux Format magazine and it is very well written by a knowledgeable chap Paul Hudson who has two mono-based projects on SourceForge.

Here's a link to Mono

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RMcG · #15 27th January 2007, 09:20 PM

Ok,. great, I'll look at Mono too.
I am working through the tutorial on Quanta plus. Looks good.
I am trying to develop my own Login page for my site, so that members can access special features I want to offer. Never done that sort of thing before. Most all my other pages are just static and not dymanic,. with the exception of a "Feedback Form"