[Geany] Geany as Windoze noob's learning tool

Ma Xiaojun damage3025 at xxxxx
Sun Aug 12 11:04:24 UTC 2012


On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:
> First, Geany is just an IDE or text editor or something between.
> Its job is to help users writing code, not to provide everything to get
> it compiling/running, especially because Geany supports not only C but
> also many many more languages.
> Setting up an environment capable of compiling/running/debugging code
> was, is and will be the responsibility of the user because only he knows
> what she needs and wishes.
That's definitely true.
It's amazing to know that Geany is quite general-purpose.

> You are speaking multiple times of "noobs". I think less advanced users
> need a tutorial how to setup a dev environment. They don't need a huge
> installer with everything in. That would maybe ease installation but
> won't help understanding what's going on. And then, from my experience,
> users who want to learn a programming language, especially a language
> like C, are not that noobish anymore. They should know how to install a
> program or how to unpack an archive into a specific path.
I'm writing a Wiki page.
https://wiki.geany.org/tag/win32/getting-started
Actually myself want a bundled, PATH independent version, too.
Since it would be hard to setup PATH in low privilege Windoze
environment like that found in my department.

> Then, if we would include Mingw for C development, then Python users
> will arrive and request inclusion of a Python runtime, then the Perl
> guys, PHP, Ruby, ...
> The installer would end up in a 3 GB file with everything included.
Anyway, what I proposed an addition rather than a replacement.
It's just like there is a GTK bundled version.

> Another reason is that it might raise licensing questions when bundling
> different runtime environments of various languages into one installer,
> even if they are all Free Software.
True.
But GCC should be OK, anyway.

> To sum it up:
> the Geany installer won't get a bundled Mingw or whatever environment
> built into.
> However, as others said before, if anyone wants to do that as a
> contribution, that is welcome.
Yes, I'd like to do it unofficially.

> P.S.: Generally it helps to use the correct names of software components
> in the public, even if you don't like them (which is also true for me
> and probably many others) but still using something like "Windoze" might
> create a wrong impression of how serious you are about the whole topic.
I'm grateful that Windows users seems not offended by "Windoze".
Windows is a trademark of a giant firm, anyway.
So I'd keep the spelling in this thread.



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