Xplode Help: Overview

Xplode Version 2.1
by Franco Milicchio milicchio@dia.uniroma3.it
© D.I.A. Università degli Studi Roma Tre

Xplode is a multiplatform IDE designed for the Plasm language. IDE stands for Integrated Development Environment, a program that embeds an editor and a connection with the compiler. So, you can edit your own programs with the editor window, and then compile your programs, or better, make the MzPlasm Plasm Interpreter evaluate your geometric definitions.

The name Xplode is a recursive name, just like many other Open Source projects, and the GNU name of course. Xplode is an acronym, "X. PL. O. D. E.", and stands for
Xplode
PLasm
Open
Designing
Environment

Xplode has been developed under Linux, using the KDevelop IDE (http://www.kdevelop.org) version 3.0 Alpha 7.

Xplode was projected and developed by Franco Milicchio (milicchio@dia.uniroma3.it) for the DIA (Dipartimento Informatica e Automazione), Università Roma Tre and was intended to be a real platform independent program. This was possible thanks to the Trolltech's Qt Library (Web site: http://www.trolltech.com/). For a complete overview about software licenses, see the license page.

For more information about the Qt Library, refer to the relative page.

Xplode is available for:

The source code is the same for all platforms (actually, there's just a little OS-dependant code). The binary distribution for MacOSX and Windows include the Qt library, since they're not included in any operating system version. The Linux binary distribution does not include the Qt library as any distribution ships the library. Check your distribution web site for the proper package.

See the changes page for more information about the changes between Xplode 2.1 and the previous versions.