Development Tools

There are many development tools available for Ubuntu. A list of some of these is included below.

Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) and source-code editors

  • Anjuta is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for C and C++.

  • Bluefish is a powerful editor for experienced web designers and programmers.

  • Eclipse is an IDE for Java and other programming languages. It forms the basis for closed-source programs such as JBuilder.

  • Eric is a fully featured Python and Ruby IDE.

  • Geany is a general-purpose IDE which can handle manydifferent programming and markup languages.

  • IDLE is the Python IDE built with the Tkinter GUI toolkit.

  • KDevelop is a IDE for KDE which supports many programming languages.

  • MonoDevelop is an IDE for writing Mono/.NET applications in C# and other languages.

  • NetBeans is a Java IDE that features support for CVS and a form builder.

  • Quanta is a powerful IDE for web development and features support for DocBook editing.

Source-code management systems

  • Bazaar-NG is a decentralised version control system used for Ubuntu development.

  • CVS is an advanced version control system used by many open-source projects.

  • Subversion (SVN) is a powerful version control system intended as a replacement for CVS.

Other tools

  • Glade is a user interface designer for building GNOME and GTK applications.