[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Best IDE for maemo development?

[From: Tomi Ollila]

Eloi Crespillo Itchart <eloi at ikuszen.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> A little survey about your development preferences:
>
> For the people that develops often on maemo, what IDE/set of tools have you 
> found to be essential to this task?
>
> Anjuta? Emacs? Kdevelop? Eclipse? devhelp? ...
>
> It could be interesting to know which tools have you found to be more suitable 
> for this task. It could also be interesting to know if you use them to 
> develop maemo itself or userspace apps.


For the few programs I've been working on to get working on maemo I've used
the following path.

First develop and test on standard Linux system, using XEmacs for editing
(and launching compiler and going through errors)

If the application is a GUI one I launch scratchbox environment. I use my
wrapper script called http://www.iki.fi/too/sw/maemo/sboxruntool.sh
to make it easy to launch the system. If there is changes to be made
I add #ifdefs to the code during more development to get software
work good on both environments. Last part is to move software
to N770, test there and possibly make even more develop/test cycles
to get it working there too.


If application is CLI one, I skip the scratchbox. I just
revcp appbin 770:.  and then enter  revsh 770 shell  and test there...


XEmacs/tramp/revsh -combo has been in my mind If I liked to
edit files remotely on N770... or compiling zile for N770
could be an option (to get poor man's emacs but that is good
for the simple tasks)

>
> Best Regards,
> -- 
>
>         Eloi Crespillo Itchart