Monday, February 28, 2005

I have gone back to XEmacs and ddd for my C++ needs. I toughed it out for a while with Eclipse (it has a plugin for C++ development), but its sluggishness finally got to me. I would have liked to use Anjuta or KDevelop, but there doesn't seem to be a way to import an existing CVS module into a new project (both of them insist on creating a new module for me). Moreover, much as I love open source software, I am not yet ready to put Vajra through the grind of autoconf, automake and libtool; I am perfectly happy with a hand-crafted makefile for the time being, thank you very much. When I was using Anjuta in my Debian days, I remember being able to force it use my makefile, but this doesn't seem to be possible with the version packaged with Suse.