Quanta editor and FTPfs
Quanta Plus is a highly stable and feature rich web development environment. The vision with Quanta has always been to start with the best architectural foundations, design for efficient and natural use and enable maximal user extensibility. We recognize that we don’t have the resources to do everything we would like to so our target is to make it easy for you to help make this the best community based desktop application anywhere. Pretty much everything in Quanta is designed so you can extend it. Even the way it handles XML DTDs is based on XML files you can edit. You can even import DTDs, write scripts to manage editor contents, visually create dialogs for your scripts and assign script actions to nearly any file operation in a project. You can even look at and communicate with a wide range of what happens inside Quanta using DCOP.
Abbreviated notes from meeting:
You can download Quanta from quanta.sourceforge.net
To download the lastest version via CVS, first make sure you have CVS installed (type cvs and make sure it doesn’t say command not found).
Create a .cvsrc file in your home directory and insert these lines:
cvs -z4 -q diff -u3 -p update -dP checkout -P
Then create a .cvspass file in your home directory and insert this line:
/1 :pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.kde.org:2401/home/kde A
Then create a directory in your home directory named ‘cvs’. ‘cd’ to this directory, then run these commands:
export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.kde.org:/home/kde cvs login cvs co quanta
Now you should see a newly created directory named ‘quanta’. ‘cd’ to this directory and run these commands:
make -f Makefile.cvs ./configure make (make sure you do this last step as the root user) make install
Quanta should now be installed! On my system it was in ‘Start’->Editors->Quanta
ftpfs
You can get ftpfs from ftpfs.sourceforget.net. This tool will allow you to mount a remote ftp server as a local filesystem.
Originally published in July 2002.