[Anjuta-list] Most recent stable version with "plain makefile" support?

["Michael Conrad" <silverdirk silverdirk com>]

Hi, I recently upgraded from 1.2.4 to 2.1.1_beta1 (these are the versions  
in gentoo's portage), and then found that it no longer supports projects  
without an automake environment.  I really like the new look and feel and  
features of the 2.0 line, but I need the ability to work on projects that  
don't use automake.  I would also like it to be as stable as possible.  (I  
read a post from back in April saying that plain makefile support was  
re-enabled in svn, after 2.1.2... but no idea how stable you keep your svn  
snapshots)

What version would you reccomend? (and yes, I'm willing to compile form  
source)


To be a little more specific about what I'm looking for: the 1.2.4 version  
gave me the ability to open up a foreign-to-me project and get nice lists  
of all the functions and structs available.  This helps immensely with  
browsing the codebase and learning the API.  I also like to have this  
information available in the code-completion and function parameter  
tooltips.

Upon upgrading to 2.1.1, I get errors about "gnome-build" not liking the  
project tree, and it refuses to import.  I can create new projects just  
fine, but there doesn't seem to be any way to get the 1.2.4 behavior where  
I can just open a directory of source files and hack on them, and still  
get tags support and code completion.  I admit that using and supporting  
automake is a good thing, but fully autotooling all the projects I need to  
work on isn't an option.

Anyway, I would ask that the developers PLEASE not go the route of  
eclipse, and end up with an inflexible mess where a person can't even  
touch their filesystem directly without screwing up the project system.  
(and other anal features, like where you import an existing codebase and  
it copies the whole project into its own managed directory tree!)  I think  
being able to do ad-hoc editing on the filesystem is a very important  
feature for the average developer, and the more IDE features that still  
work while doing this, the better.

-Mike