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Framework vs Devkit - What's the difference?

framework | devkit |

As nouns the difference between framework and devkit

is that framework is software framework while devkit is (computing) a set of development tools that allow the creation of software for a particular platform or framework.

framework

Noun

(en noun)
  • (literally)   The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size.
  • (figuratively)   The larger branches of a tree that determine its shape.
  • (figuratively, especially in, computing)   A basic conceptual structure.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
  • , author=John T. Jost , title=Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)? , volume=100, issue=2, page=162 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.}}
    These ‘three principles of connexion’ comprise the framework of principles in Hume's account of the association of ideas.
  • (literally)   The identification and categorisation of processes or steps that constitute a complex task or mindset in order to render explicit the tacit and implicit.
  • Derived terms

    * architectural framework * framework agreement * software framework

    devkit

    English

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia devkit)
  • (computing) A set of development tools that allow the creation of software for a particular platform or framework.
  • * 2007 , Frank H. P. Fitzek, Frank Reichert, Mobile Phone Programming and Its Application to Wireless Networks (page 178)
  • A devkit basically contains a set of software tools, and several of them can be installed into a target.
  • * 2009 , Luis Levy, Jeannie Novak, Game Development Essentials: Game QA & Testing
  • Sony's devkits are large, to say the least. The Dreamcast, on the other hand, was very much a Microsoft animal and friendlier to code and test.