From: Kirk Haines <wyhaines@...>
Date: 2005-03-30T03:34:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Best (Windows) Ruby editor

Richard Dale wrote:

> Ruby support in KDevelop 3.2.0 is probably at least good as Eclipse RDT,
> although KDevelop doesn't run on Windows. I would love to hear the opinion
> of someone who has tried both too.

I have used Eclipse with RDT for quite a while, but a couple months ago I
started switching to KDevelop, in large part because KDevelop gives me
(almost) everything I like about Eclipse in a faster, less bulky package.

If my development box were a cutting edge, super fast machine with a lot of
excess RAM, I probably wouldn't have as much incentive to use KDevelop, but
given that it's not any of those things, I've so far not found a lot to
complain about with KDevelop.  In fact, if I could hook it to my CVS
repository so that I could be extra lazy and do commits from within the
editor, and if I could have a tree view of my project areas (and maybe I
can and just need to learn the app better), I'd really have nothing to
complain about.

Eclipse + RTD is good, but KDevelop, at least for Linux, has the potential
to be great.


Kirk Haines