Re: Quanta (was: kdebase-runtime upgrade problems)
On Thu 2009-08-06, Arthur Marsh wrote:
> I run most packages from unstable, but have kept KDE at 3.5.9/3.5.10
> as my reason for running KDE in the first place was Quanta, which is
> still at 4:3.5.9-3, and does not "see" cervisia versions later than
> 4:3.5.9-3 and needs kdebase-kio-plugins 4:3.5.X also.
Hi Arthur,
I run quanta+ on my box (unstable with KDE 4.2.4) and it takes
a little wrangling (a small --force-all install script of the quanta
deb package). But it works a treat.
Note, I don't use cervisia - any CVS stuff I do, I do with the svn
command line - nor do I use the other things that haven't come
across - kfilereplace, kommander, klinkstatus.
If 4.3 makes even this option impossible for me, I expect I'll end
up cranking up a stable distro-in-a-VM, probably kept headless,
and just run quanta over X. It sounds like I prefer that editor as
much as you do. :)
I don't see the VM option as being hugely arduous or heavy, it's
just messy. And behind that mess is the sadness that there was
never more interest from other developers (the primary developer
did pretty much 99% of the work, AFAICT) for Quanta+. It's also
sad that despite something like NetBeans being 100MB (quanta is
just 6MB) installed, it's slower and has less of the basic
functionality I need. Quanta/Kate, despite being a few years since
it had some serious lovin', is still one of the best PHP IDE's.
I have been hunting around for more news on Quanta - it seems
it might be resurrected, but the postings I've seen, given their
vintage and stated expectations, suggest that it will be many
months away. There was some interesting work done on getting
PHP support into kdevelop - the results sounded quite impressive - but
required a fair bit of user-compilation of non-supported lumps of
code .. and there was an expectation amongst the developers there
that it would be a very short term experiment (again, they were
thinking Quanta 4 would eventually fill the gap).
I'm probably going to upgrade to 4.3 in a day or so - once the
package mirroring and other little buglets have been sorted out,
and can report back then on whether quanta can still be coerced
into running under it.
cheers,
Jedd.
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