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Re: Free IDE for Octave exploration and development


From: Jacob Dawid
Subject: Re: Free IDE for Octave exploration and development
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 08:17:52 +0200

Hey Alex,

> Do we have some project file in the octave repository which might be opened
> directly using IDE ?
> Or I need to create one manually ?

Usually, when developing Qt applications, you will tend to use
QtCreator. At least for Qt, it is the superior IDE, because it tightly
embeds the Qt documentation. Without the documentation, you are lost
in Qt, so the alternative would be to keep a browser window open with
the online documentation. The advantage of QtCreator being a very
specialized tool is the biggest disadvantage at the same time.

Now that GNU Octave is not all Qt code, developers widely seem to use
GNU Emacs, which is basically a highly configurable text editor (as I
experienced it), but is not the swiss army knife you would expect when
working with IDEs before (Code::Blocks, Visual Studio, KDevelop,
Dev-C++ and so on). You will miss things like graphical debugging,
project build settings, class trees and method listings together with
inline documentation when hovering over method signatures, code
profiling etc.

GNU Octave developers seem to cope with it and have found ways to
replace lacking functionality with tools, but in general the use of an
IDE (which is the environment developers today are really used to)
seems to be unpreferred. So there is really no answer to your
question, except you may try GNU Emacs and see how that works for you.
Otherwise, you would have to locally create your own project files or
choose an IDE that can cope with autotools as project files (I have no
idea whether such a thing exists).

Jacob


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