[gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>]

On 02/26/2010 06:10 PM, BRM wrote:
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>> From: Alex Schuster<wonko@wonkology.org>
>>> That's the only issue. My only concern is software (e.g. KDevelop) that
>>> may not have been updated to KDE4 yet. (Not a fan of KDevelop3;
>>> waiting to see how KDevelop4 is going to shape up.)
>> The KDE4 version is in the kde overlay, but I do not know if it is usable
>> already.
>
> For now, I'll wait. I mostly use vim; and having done a lot of Windows stuff for work I am familiar with VS.
> While there are a lot of things I don't like about VS, nothing else seems to quite compare.
> KDevelop3 at least drove me nuts; and Eclipse just doesn't do well when you're not programming in Java - I have yet to get CDT to work, though I've mostly tried on Windows.
> QtCreator seems to be on the right track, though it's still quite early.
>
> I'm interested to see how KDevelop4 is going to turn out, but I'll certainly wait for it to reach the mainline tree.

The KDevelop 4 is actually in Portage (dev-util/kdevelop:4), not only in 
the kde overlay.

I have both Kdev4 and Qt Creator installed.  I ended up going with 
Creator, but I'm still keeping an eye on Kdev4.