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Re: Eric Lafoon
by Aaron J. Seigo on Tuesday 09/Mar/2004, @10:59

to be perfectly fair, vim is a text editor (and a damn fine one at that, he says glancing at his vim-in-konsole sessions), which is quite different than what Quanta and KDevelop are.

and Quanta and KDevelop are pretty "platform independent" as well as they run on any platform KDE runs on, which is quite a few. Eclipse gains it's platform flexibility by using Java, which is available pretty much everywhere these days, in a similar way to how Quanta can run on a number of systems due to KDE libs running just about everywhere these days. personally (note that i said _personally_) i could care less if it runs on MS Windows; if it does, hooray for those stuck in that world.

OT: i have a feeling that Eclipse's popularity has a lot to do with IBM's pushing it hard PR-wise more than anything else =) i'm sure it's a fine product (i don't use IDEs myself), but that's not why it's suddenly become so popular =) it's an interesting experiment in Free Software because we'll see how far old-fashioned PR stunting can go in pushing a project into the mainstream.

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Re: Eric Lafoon
by Gerd on Wednesday 10/Mar/2004, @03:01

I guess the initial point was: Wow, these tools, nothing on the market compares with and what KDE supporters on trade fairs talk sounds like the understatement of L.I. (Klaus Wennemann) in the classic movie Das Boot(1981) scene: A few things still need to be fixed.

Intrested outsiders will get: Oh, it is not ready yet.

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