I would, out of the blue, like to highlight the work the people doing the Anjuta 2.x series have done. I have been working with whatever is in Subversion (and before that, CVS) for multiple years now. It had its weeks of total instability, weeks of total stability too. But on features, especially on features, it has seen vast improvements. It’s a totally different experience when compared to the 1.x series of Anjuta.
pvanhoof@schtrumpf:~/repos/gnome/anjuta$ sudo make install ... /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'anjuta.desktop' '/opt/anjuta//share/applications/anjuta.desktop' make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/pvanhoof/repos/gnome/anjuta' make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/pvanhoof/repos/gnome/anjuta' pvanhoof@schtrumpf:~/repos/gnome/anjuta$
They are now working on integrating some bits and pieces with scratchbox. The integration with autotools (which utilizes gnome-build) is unimaginable good. I’ve become a total addict of features like the symbol browser and the symbol searcher. I’m sure I’m missing quite a lot of other features that could potentially glue and duck tape me forever to Anjuta’s 2.x. A requirement for any distribution that I’ll use has been, since more than a year, that I can easily build whatever I find in Anjuta Subversion -> “apt-get install gnome-devel”. Thank you, Ubuntu and Debian, for that.
I believe we need more of our developers to use this project. That way we can get this project to become a product, too. Because frustrated developers will fix Anjuta’s code. In contrast, I haven’t seen a lot of GNOME-developer’s frustration get converted into code for the Eclipse CDT project. I’m confident that since Anjuta is purely GNOME/Gtk+ style of development, Anjuta would be different.
I often got so pissed at whoever broke the search dialog of Anjuta’s Subversion this time. Forcing me to go back to ‘grep’ and ‘find’, to find things. Slowing me down. But then again, I should just help them in stead. Right? In stead of remaining pissed, I’ll truly apologize for being a user of their software yet not having contributed a lot to their fabulous 2.x series. On the bright side, I did do some work on the file dialog of the 1.x series of Anjuta. That code has now vanished and been replaced by superior things, of course.
I’ll put an icon on my desktop that throws Anjuta’s process into gdb. Being a developer you’ll be surprised how often you click it and then actually fix that annoying bug in stead of just restarting the software. I used to do this with Evolution too.
