delorie.com/archives/browse.cgi   search  
Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/12/18/04:00:38

From: "Fábio Diales da Rocha" <crismafabio AT mail DOT telepac DOT pt>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: RHIDE - compliments and complaints
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 01:17:41 -0000
Lines: 35
Message-ID: <67790n$372$1@duke.telepac.pt>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.65.180.55
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp

    RHIDE is a great IDE, and, although it isn't quite as integrated with
djgpp as you would expect a IDE designed by the same persons that designed
the compiler, it's almost there. The debugger is particulary efficient,
feeling like a built-in to the compiler. The help system is the best you
could possibily expect since it has to search the info files.

    Despite that there are 3 "undocumented features" that I find quite
unpleasant:

    1. It refuses to compile "cpp" files, only accepting "cc" ones although
gcc does fine with "cpp" files

    2. Its complete inability to find files in the current directory,
forcing you to add it to the search directories. And, NO, i don't like
projects, they're perfectly supportable if you're actually coding something,
but if you want just to browse through some source files they're completly
insupportable.

    3. And last, but certanly not least - it takes an unnecessary ammount of
time to compile because it spends half the time writting and reading
something to disk. Example: if just try to run grep (i don't have it) it
takes about 15 seconds before a simple "Bad command or file name". This is
extremelly annoying. Believe it or not i've read a book in the interims
rhide takes to call gcc twice.

    That and some minor inconcistences on the keyboard mapping and the
intelligent identing (remember, you can identify a programmer by the way he
idents is code, so very obtrusive intelligent identing is very irritating)
stop RHIDE from being the perfect IDE.
    I hope these glitches will be fixed by the next version and please tell
me if some of the "bugs" I mencioned are in fact something I'm doing wrong.

    Fábio Diales da Rocha


- Raw text -


  webmaster     delorie software   privacy  
  Copyright © 2019   by DJ Delorie     Updated Jul 2019