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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid"><br>There just happens to be many that prefer eclipse and<br>when there is large commercial developers using it, it
<br>needs to be supported. It just happens to be a tool chosen<br>by Nokia for Symbian development.</blockquote>
<div><br>To be fair, Eclipse has great environment, very modular, and</div>
<div>accelerates development. It has many different back-ends</div>
<div>for a number of CM systems. You not only build and debug easily,</div>
<div>but also you can design and test. Eclipse has large community and it</div>
<div>has received a lot of investment. </div>
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<div>Now, when you build a new application on Maemo, it won't be millions</div>
<div>of lines of code. Maybe 100 files or 50000 lines maximum. These short</div>
<div>of projects are managed quite well under Eclipse. You can develop and test</div>
<div>your application on your host quite easily. Then you can cross compile it</div>
<div>and produce an installable package for your target. </div>
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<div>Eclipse has problems on big monolithic software blocks like Linux kernel, or Minimo</div>
<div>where they have millions of lines of code, developing and debugging the</div>
<div>kernel is different story, different process anyway.</div>
<div>However, how wants monolithic systems, everyone (everything) goes modular.. </div>
<div>Then Eclipse may be the way go.</div>
<div> </div><br>Andreas<br> </div><br>