I was talking to some guys on IRC, looking at the revision history, and trying to figure out what's going on with my favorite IDE. I'm told that the main developer who created it, ran off with some woman and now will have no time to ever work on this project. Is it true? Is Dev-C++ done?
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I don't know if what the OP says is true or not about Colin, however, buried deep within the source code for Dev-Pascal, in the EggUnit, Colin includes this message:
'I would like to thanks :'+#13+
'My family, and friends : Pierre (el Pierre : ), Adeline (my sweetheart), Jessica (my weird friend ;-), Cdric, Hongli, Mumit Khan, J.J. Van der Heidjen, '+
'Mary J., Jerome, Arnaud, Xavier (Sonia ;-p), Nicolas, Simon, Freaky Flow, '+
'and you !'
You can take the meaning of "my sweetheart" as you wish. Don't know if there is anything similiarly found in the Dev-C++ source code.
As an aside, the EggUnit is a rather odd unit in itself. I don't know Delphi, so I'm mostly guessing here, but it appears you can only access it when you have selected "About Dev-Pascal" and are in the 'Authors' dialog window. Somehow, a dialog box will appear in which you must answer yes to "Hi, i''m the Egg. Is it easter yet?" If you do, the message above will appear.
See Ya
Butch
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That's ancient. Hong left the project before I did.
Kip
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2005-08-19
Lets face it. Dev-cpp seems more dead than alive, sadly. And the big problem here is that we all (well, 98%) are C++ developers, so continuing a Delphi-based IDE would be painful.
Thats why I switched to Code::Blocks, since I got tired of the lack of updates here. At least if one of the developers was around here (well, I think there is just one, not several, hehe), like you know talking to us, saying "Hi! Im alive and kicking"
Just my 2 cents here
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I will not contribute to this project because Delphi is a waste of time to learn. There are many other important things to do besides figure out Delphi; get better at network code, get better at a specific aspect of C++. Dev-C++ is a cool little IDE. I'm a C++ coder, and I'd love to do my part to fix some bugs, enhance it and work on new functionality, but I will not learn Delphi.
I guess most other coders share this view with me, so Dev-C++ must be dying pretty fast without the freakish Delphi guy who created it.
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I describe him this way because he wrote a C++ IDE in Pascal ... That severely limits the number of people who can contribute to the project, because they're a bunch of C++ coders who use it/care about the app.
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Is anyone absolutely sure that Colin had abandoned Dev-C++? If not, please don't assume that he has. Just because he is now deeply in love with the woman of his dreams, it doesn't mean that he gave up Dev-C++ totally. Who knows, perhaps, he might resume work on Dev-C++ sometime in the future. ;)
Cheers,
KC
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didn't he announce to make a fresh Bloodshed-website and to set up a new forum for the community some weeks ago? He didn't sound like someone who has burried his project at all . I can't help it, but I got the feeling that the given assumptions at the top are coming from the same troll which complains every week that Dev-Cpp hasn't been updated again....
if so, his life must be really boring...
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It works? Huh? You can't even properly press tab/shift-tab to indent/unindent blocks of code in Dev-C++ unless you have Code Completion turned on.
... I wouldn't exactly say this IDE works well enough to leave alone. This is the only one out of all the free IDE's out there that can't do the tab/shift tab indentation.
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Hi.
I was talking to some guys on IRC, looking at the revision history, and trying to figure out what's going on with my favorite IDE. I'm told that the main developer who created it, ran off with some woman and now will have no time to ever work on this project. Is it true? Is Dev-C++ done?
This forum is clearly been attacked by trolls and flamers, just dont answer them, and let the project continues.
Nothing lasts forever :)
Too bad Colin cheated on you: you must feel betrayed!
I thought it is Open Source. So anyone can continue with the work...;) The thing is I don't do Delphi. If C++, I might consider.
Cheers!
KC
That's gotta be some woman!
Dev-C++ is alive and working!
( at least here on my machine ;) )
To be honest, I'm actually not a woman ...
Hi Everyone:
I don't know if what the OP says is true or not about Colin, however, buried deep within the source code for Dev-Pascal, in the EggUnit, Colin includes this message:
'I would like to thanks :'+#13+
'My family, and friends : Pierre (el Pierre : ), Adeline (my sweetheart), Jessica (my weird friend ;-), Cdric, Hongli, Mumit Khan, J.J. Van der Heidjen, '+
'Mary J., Jerome, Arnaud, Xavier (Sonia ;-p), Nicolas, Simon, Freaky Flow, '+
'and you !'
You can take the meaning of "my sweetheart" as you wish. Don't know if there is anything similiarly found in the Dev-C++ source code.
As an aside, the EggUnit is a rather odd unit in itself. I don't know Delphi, so I'm mostly guessing here, but it appears you can only access it when you have selected "About Dev-Pascal" and are in the 'Authors' dialog window. Somehow, a dialog box will appear in which you must answer yes to "Hi, i''m the Egg. Is it easter yet?" If you do, the message above will appear.
See Ya
Butch
That's ancient. Hong left the project before I did.
Kip
Lets face it. Dev-cpp seems more dead than alive, sadly. And the big problem here is that we all (well, 98%) are C++ developers, so continuing a Delphi-based IDE would be painful.
Thats why I switched to Code::Blocks, since I got tired of the lack of updates here. At least if one of the developers was around here (well, I think there is just one, not several, hehe), like you know talking to us, saying "Hi! Im alive and kicking"
Just my 2 cents here
I will not contribute to this project because Delphi is a waste of time to learn. There are many other important things to do besides figure out Delphi; get better at network code, get better at a specific aspect of C++. Dev-C++ is a cool little IDE. I'm a C++ coder, and I'd love to do my part to fix some bugs, enhance it and work on new functionality, but I will not learn Delphi.
I guess most other coders share this view with me, so Dev-C++ must be dying pretty fast without the freakish Delphi guy who created it.
almost free products for C/C++
-it is the best for the beginners
-it is very good for the others
"without the freakish Delphi guy who created it."
Do you really know Colin?
Why do you feel comfortable using a term like "freakish" to describe someone you don't even know?
Wayne
I describe him this way because he wrote a C++ IDE in Pascal ... That severely limits the number of people who can contribute to the project, because they're a bunch of C++ coders who use it/care about the app.
He didn't start writing it today. Pascal was mainstream at the time.
Kip
Is anyone absolutely sure that Colin had abandoned Dev-C++? If not, please don't assume that he has. Just because he is now deeply in love with the woman of his dreams, it doesn't mean that he gave up Dev-C++ totally. Who knows, perhaps, he might resume work on Dev-C++ sometime in the future. ;)
Cheers,
KC
didn't he announce to make a fresh Bloodshed-website and to set up a new forum for the community some weeks ago? He didn't sound like someone who has burried his project at all . I can't help it, but I got the feeling that the given assumptions at the top are coming from the same troll which complains every week that Dev-Cpp hasn't been updated again....
if so, his life must be really boring...
Or his work life could be like mine, just when you think a lull has hit, a new crises arises.
Wayne
Just leave him be. Dev works.
Kip
Sure it works, but is mediocrity the goal of this project?
It wasn't the target audience either, but shit happens.
PS Food for thought: http://www.garret.ru/~knizhnik/ptoc/Readme.htm
Kip
It works? Huh? You can't even properly press tab/shift-tab to indent/unindent blocks of code in Dev-C++ unless you have Code Completion turned on.
... I wouldn't exactly say this IDE works well enough to leave alone. This is the only one out of all the free IDE's out there that can't do the tab/shift tab indentation.
Indent: ctrl + shift + i
Unindent: ctrl + shift + u
Kip