[maemo-developers] Eclipse & the IDEs

[From: Kate Alhola]

ext maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org wrote:
>> On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 17:13 +0300, ext Naba Kumar wrote:
>>     
>>> I would still keep the options to encourage and support 
>>>       
>> other IDEs for 
>>     
>>> meamo development.
>>>       
>> Only a small detail: we are not trying to encourage any IDE. 
>> We want to clarify what are the IDEs those targeted developers 
>> are used to, in order to provide maemo support for these tools.
>>
>> Eclipse based IDEs are widely used by developers specializing 
>> in mobile devices, according to Forum Nokia. They probably 
>> know well. All the better if we can ease their path to Linux 
>> and GTK+ development by providing/improving the maemo support 
>> on their preferred tools, don't you think?
>>
>> --
>> Quim Gil - http://maemo.org
>>     
>
> Wondering how many people around here use what IDE, if any. I use
> Anjuta. Just found out we have Anjuta people in our team (!).
>
> Our platform is so much different from Symbian that I wouldn't make any
> parallels over IDE suitability.
>
>   
The key of suitability is in the actual coders mind. You like use
tools that you are familiar and you are most productive with them.
I have myself long term OSS/Linux/Unix background and i prefer emacs
but i don't try to push emacs to developers having Symbian or Microsoft
background. It is just as futile that trying to force me to use some
Visual Studio.

When we try promote maemo for larget developer audience, we
need to support more diversity and customize offering for target
audience. Developers having symbian (or microsoft etc) history
have used to some IDE and some Object Oriented language.
Eclipse is already used for symbian as Carbide SDK so
many symbian developers are familiar with it.

Supporting Eclipse and C++ does not exclude out any existing
non IDE-tools or other IDE's. I would like to continue see Anjuta
as community supported IDE in Maemo for these that prefer it


Kate