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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Keeping the roadmapping/planing track around the developer platform.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Eclipse, and the IDE approach in general. The developer audience of maemo will increase if the platform and of course the tablets are attractive. Command line based tools are the natural context for maemo development due to the obvious GNU/Linux, Debian, GTK+ etc genealogy. However, as soon as we jump to traditional mobile, Windows based or commercial software development IDEs are a must and Eclipse seems to be the environment most developers are used to in our wider (potential) context. If you have other IDE preferences/plans, pleas share.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">There is some Eclipse related interest and effort going on and, again, some coordination / communication between the interested parts would be helpful to figure out what to promote and support. </FONT><A HREF="https://garage.maemo.org/projects/pluthon/"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">https://garage.maemo.org/projects/pluthon/</FONT></U></A><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> and </FONT><A HREF="http://www.cs.tut.fi/~laika/"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://www.cs.tut.fi/~laika/</FONT></U></A><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> are different projects based on Eclipse with different goals. If you know more, please share.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Quim</FONT>
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