[maemo-developers] Eclipse & the IDEs

[From: Andreas Orfanos]

>
> There just happens to be many that prefer eclipse and
> when there is large commercial developers using it, it
> needs to be supported. It just happens to be a tool chosen
> by Nokia for Symbian development.


To be fair, Eclipse has great environment, very modular, and
accelerates development. It has many different back-ends
for a number of CM systems. You not only build and debug easily,
but also you can design and test. Eclipse has large community and it
has received a lot of investment.

Now, when you build a new application on Maemo, it won't be millions
of lines of code. Maybe 100 files or 50000 lines maximum. These short
of projects are managed quite well under Eclipse. You can develop and test
your application on your host quite easily. Then you can cross compile it
and produce an installable package for your target.

Eclipse has problems on big monolithic software blocks like Linux kernel, or
Minimo
where they have millions of lines of code, developing and debugging the
kernel is different story, different process anyway.
However, how wants monolithic systems,  everyone (everything) goes modular..

Then Eclipse may be the way go.


Andreas
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