[maemo-developers] Eclipse & the IDEs

[From: Ed Okerson]

>
>>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 (!).

I also use Anjuta now.  I tried Eclipse, but it had massive problems on
even slightly older machines that Anjuta runs fine on.

> Our platform is so much different from Symbian that I wouldn't make any
> parallels over IDE suitability.

When I took some Symbian classes a couple of years ago, they were
endorsing (and teaching) Visual Studio as the IDE of choice.  I doubt you
will find many people willing to develop for Maemo with that IDE. :)

Ed Okerson