Reply to: Tools for development workflow

[rashm2k]

RUDE MUCH!

I think he means GIT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)

[DimPrawn]

GIT

RUDE MUCH!

[VectraMan]

I've never used QT, but I understood it used some kind of preprocessor, which sounds like a terrible idea.

I've spent most the nearly 4 years since I wrote that working on QT applications. Funny old game.

[woohoo]

I used SVN with Tortoise and found it pretty good, Jenkins is another good CI build tool much like Hudson.

I've also heard of CVS banded around for version control

GIT

[The Spartan]

I used SVN with Tortoise and found it pretty good, Jenkins is another good CI build tool much like Hudson.

I've also heard of CVS banded around for version control

[d000hg]

I got a free account at Assembla (but this is a rather old thread!)

[Scrag Meister]

Second for SVN, we use Ankh SVN

[d000hg]

And to Thomas' project, now Qt is presumably doomed.

[BrilloPad]

Are you serious?

You 'expect' it to be in C++?

As Vectraman says, it sounds like you haven't a clue what you're doing.

What's the application?

The last post by bogeyman. I wonder whatever happened to him?

[xoggoth]

VC++? Some years since I used it but assuming the GUI is still done in MFC, quite horrible. C#.net miles better and easier to pick up.

[Freamon]

How do I get the project to be built/compiled automatically after each code update?

Hudson: Hudson CI

[ThomasSoerensen]

Thank you very much.

[VectraMan]

£700 per person for Visual Studio Pro, or whatever the Euro equivalent is, and unfortunately that's the only version you can buy now. I used the free VC++ Express for a while whilst working on a wxWidgets project, which was fine but you don't get to use add-ins so you won't be able to use the QT one with Express.

A lot of these IDEs seem to be little more than the Scintilla text editor with the ability to launch make and a debugger externally. To my mind that doesn't qualify as an "Integrated Development Environment". Visual Studio really is the best for Windows development, even though it has many flaws.

SVN for source control, and VMs are very useful for testing. I use VirtualBox, which is free, but VMWare is better. Plus you need the OS licences to go into the VM.

You might also need to think about deployment; maybe you need something to create an installer?

If you're going to have a team of people, it's probably worth thinking about a continuous integration/build server. My last client had some god-awful system using Java and Ant. I would do the same with a WSH script.

And for bugtracking, I would just use Bugzilla, as a free non-nonsense tool. You can make it integrate with Subversion, which is nice.

That's my template for how to setup a small software development effort. The cost of the tools pales into insignificance compared to the cost of the people to do the work of course, and it sounds a lot like you're going to need somebody like me (or even me) to help you with "typing" the code.

[ThomasSoerensen]

I am currently evaluating which technologies to use, with my business partner.
One aspect of this evaluation are the surrounding tools, are they costly, are they easy to use etc.

So this post was an attempt to get some information on what surrounding tools are needed if the project uses Qt and C++ and Visual Studio and MS SQL server, in order to try to judge if this is the best way to go.

I might not have a clue about what I am doing, but right now I am investigating the possible technologies in order to make an informed decision.

There is no need to get all excited and call me names, if you don't have any suggestions you can just refrain from writing in this thread.

[bogeyman]

Are you serious?

You 'expect' it to be in C++?

As Vectraman says, it sounds like you haven't a clue what you're doing.

What's the application?