From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Daniel Felix Ferber
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 12:49
PM
To: CDT
General developers list.
Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] Speaking of
Linux Desktop
IMHO, most critical issue I have seen against CDT on a
Linux desktop is installation.
If you take a typical user friendly Linux distro and install Eclipse "out
of the box", the user will face 4 major issues.
1) Most Linux distros will prioritize GNU as Java VM. Compared to other VMs, I
noted that GNU VM makes Eclipse run slow, consume a large amount of memory and
even crash often. I have lost count of users that where blaming Eclipse (or
CDT) on forums to be too slow and memory wasting, while the true cause was the
GNU VM degrading Eclipse usability.
2) Even worse, these Linux distros do not easy the installation of quality Java
VMs, like those from Sun or IBM. Even more worse, IMHO, Sun and IBM do not
provide packages that make installation easy enough for desktop users.
3) Most Linux distros provide packages that install a customized Eclipse
thought their own package manager. This customized versions are compiled with
gij and suffer the same performance and memory issues that I have already
mentioned.
4) Once installed, Eclipse GUI inherits the GTK theme from the desktop. On user
friendly distros, font and borders are set to a size that does not allow a
developer to show together editor and project view, even on a high resolution
screen. In this situations, compared to other development tools, Eclipse looks
ugly.
There were several other major issues, but I was very pleased to see CDT 4.0
solve most of them!
Best regards,
Daniel Ferber
Doug Schaefer escreveu:
Got
this in my Google Alerts today.
http://forums.devx.com/showthread.php?p=483772#post483772
This is the kind of thing that makes me concerned
about the state of CDT on Linux Desktop. Why are we not as good as kdevelop and
anjuta as the one guy claimed? And even if we know that, who’s going to contribute
to make it better?
Doug
Schaefer, QNX Software Systems
Eclipse CDT Project
Lead, http://cdtdoug.blogspot.com
