Subj : (was) Re: bcc 5.02 command line v. ide
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : David Morris
Date : Fri Apr 08 2005 09:41 am

A long long time ago.... "JackRosenbloom" <jrosenbloom@vertisinc.com> wrote in
message news:41b092dc$1@newsgroups.borland.com...

>> compiler and debugger are great.  The IDE stinks.  I use a product
>> called "Zeus for Windows", which is an amazing editor and IDE.  It was
>>

This is off post I know, but in a longing thread some time back in this place,
discussing make files, borlandc, IDE and editors, it was recommended that I try
the Zeus IDE.  I disparaged it at the time as shareware...

me - >it is shareware.   This is going to sound odd, but I feel much safer with
>freeware than shareware.   A really big commercial application has a heap of
>resources and testing thrown at it before release, and you can usually get
free
>patches if something is broken.  Plus, there are reputations to protect, and

However, I have changed my mind, and may review my thoughts about shareware
entirely after this, and so I though I might post this follow up.

I think the fact that it is Australian software subtly and positively
influenced me, as I suspected that the support would be very good.

So after a length evaluation period, and some minor changes in Zues from the
Author (who is really helpful), I have decided to go with Zeus, as my IDE
(http://www.zeusedit.com).

I will continue with Borlandc 5.02 (but not the IDE) for my DOS applications,
but have converted many of the 32bit applications to Visual C (VS6 in the first
instance).

Using make files, with a rather hacked (in the old sense of the word) version
of makedepend and Zeus it seems I can have the best of both worlds.   And
running make files, with and IDE that stores most of its data in xml, gives me
a feeling of confidence about the robustness of the environment which was
starting to strain at the edges as it grew over time.

regards DM

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