[Dev-C++] Large Project Support

[Jan B. <jb...@av...>]

Hi everyone,

I have just started to develop using Dev-C++ and I it is a lovely tool that
I will use for smaller project (< 200 C++ classes). It is very sad the tool
is written in Delphi, since I otherwise would have joined the development (I
actually know Delphi as well, but well ... I am a hardcore C++ developer).

The comments I have are related to the type of work I use the GNU compilers
for. First of all I have 10 different targets. Linux, Windows and 8
different embedded processors including ARM7/9, MIPS, MC860 etc. I work on a
massive project together with 14 other developers and our project briefly
cover ca 3000 C++ classes that can be divided into ca 20 packages. But, we
also have one project counting > 50,000 divided on ca 200 ++ different
packages. We can manage this by defining 30 projects (which is what we do),
but one of the features in Visual Studio I like is it's strong capability to
manage and track dependencies between multiple projects. 

This is just to indicate why I and other hardcore C++ developers would love
this tool if we could get a few more features build in listed in prioritized
order.

1. Support of several projects with tracking of dependency between them.
2. Support of multiple targets.
3. Background build in view, not dialog.
4. Multi-user Todo list.
5. API enabling other tools to be integrated into the IDE.
6. Scripting (for automation and for batching)

Jan