What is KDevelop ?
- KDevelop
- is a free, open source IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for MS Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD. It is a feature-full, plugin extensible IDE for C/C++ and other programming languages. It is based on KDevPlatform, and the KDE and Qt libraries and is under development since 1998.
- KDevPlatform
- is a free, open source set of libraries that can be used as a foundation for IDE-like programs. It is programing-language independent, and is planned to be used by programs like: KDevelop, Quanta, Kile, KTechLab ... etc.
Versions
- KDevelop4
- A major rewrite based on Qt4/KDE4 with a powerful language architecture. Under heavy development and currently in Beta phase, recommended for C++ or PHP development with CMake or custom Makefiles as their build system. Recommended for Linux (all other OS might work, but are not tested yet).
- KDevelop3
- Very stable and mature IDE based on Qt3/KDE3 with support for many programing languages and build systems. No longer under development
News of 2010 
2010-February-28 - KDevelop 4.0 and KDevPlatform 1.0 release schedule
KDevelop is reaching a very mature state, the amount of bugs is declining rapidly and we agreed on the
release schedule.
2010-February-12 - KDevelop 4.0 beta8 released
KDevelop 4.0 beta8 (3.9.98) and KDevPlatform 0.9.98 were released today and can be
downloaded via public ftp. They fix
more than 87 bugs.
Many users are using older KDevelop beta versions, and often report bugs that already have been fixed. Please update to this version before reporting a bug, it might already been solved.
2009-December-16 - KDevelop 4.0 beta7 released
This one fixes
more than 111 bugs from beta6.
Please do not use previous versions to report bugs, most of the bugs have been fixed in this version. So please update to it before reporting bugs.
Latest blog posts from KDevelop developers
Kate, KDevelop and Okteta Developers Meet in Berlin
Berlin, probably one of the most frequented KDE hacking locations in the world, saw another hack sprint from 13th to 21st of February. This time four of the KDevelop and five of the Kate developers shared a week of very productive programming. Additionally team members from Okteta and KDE on Windows...Source: KDE.news | 8 Mar 2010 | 8:06 pm
KDevelop4 UI: Areas, Working Sets, etc.
General Progress A lot is happening in KDevelop4 these days. Now it’s nearly already 2 Months ago that we had our developer meeting in Ukraine. We had a lot of fun, although for me the trip started two days late. I didn’t get my passport in time, damn. But once there, I got quite product...Source: Zwabel's Weblog | 21 Jun 2009 | 11:58 pm
STL Visualization
As of today, KDevelop can nicely display std::vector. I'll probably omit the obvious snapshot, and will point to a mailing list post with instructions for trying it. Instead, I'll tell the story of this feature. For its entire history, GDB did not have any official way to display types from the C+...Source: Volodya's blog | 6 Jun 2009 | 7:24 pm
KDevelop error display
For quite a while I wanted KDevelop to display compilation errors directly inside the editor, as opposed to separate window you have to click in. It works now, as shown below. This was implemented by Ivan Ruchkin, a student at Moscow State University, who will be defending a term paper about vario...Source: Volodya's blog | 20 May 2009 | 6:22 pm
Really rapid C++ development with KDevelop4
Code Assistants When developing for a statically typed language like C++, there usually is quite a bit of redundancy during the development, especially when creating a completely new piece of code. A powerful IDE with deep code understandic theoretically could save a significant amount of the writin...Source: Zwabel's Weblog | 13 Mar 2009 | 9:52 pm
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