It would be great if we found an easy to use but powerful open source alternative. Eclipse is a great candidate but always seems to be focused on the less Arduino side of things. Really great for real experts but can be difficult/cumbersome for others.
Questions...
Is this really Arduino or AVR?
Does your suggestion support multiple pde/ino files and handle the associated Arduino pre-processing?
Does it read the same configuration as the Arduino IDE to establish the locations of new board definitions, cores and variants or does this info have to be entered manually for each project/board that we create (or download from the web)
Can it, without modifications, work with all existing Arduino 1.x open source projects from the web?
What about user installed libraries in the sketch folder? Can it find them easily?
Thanks