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RE: [stellation-res] A minor proposed reorganization 
On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 22:37, Jonathan Gossage wrote:
> > >For those of us who are Eclipsians, this kind of thing is no big deal;
> > >in fact, Eclipse was intended to do things this way, and so this kind of
> > >subdivision often makes it easier to work with a project in Eclipse. My
> > >once concern is that we do have at least two people (Dave and Florin)
> > >who are working, at least part time, without eclipse, using standard
> > >command line tools. In you're working outside Eclipse, then dealing
> > >with code separated this way can be painful.
> > >
> > >	-Mark
> > >
> The last time I worked with command line tools on a large scale was in my
> QNX days in the mid-eighties so I guess that I may have forgotten the
> problems. Out of curiousity, are they working this way by choice or
> necessity? Because I am interested in tool development, I like to understand
> why different environments are chosen.

I'm with you on that; it's a lot of what led me into this project. (I
don't know if you've heard my Montana shpiel, but my habit of watching
how people choose and use tools led me directly into starting the
project that became Stellation.) 

>From my observations, I think that the reasons for not using Eclipse for
Stellation work are a mixture of preference and necessity.

>From past mail on the list, Florin seems to like using Eclipse when he
can, but often can't, because his hardware just isn't up to the rather
heavy demands placed on it by Eclipse. (As much as I love Eclipse, I do
admit that it is quite the resource hog.) So I think he's mainly working
outside of Eclipse due to necessity. 

On the other hand, I think Dave does it out of choice: he prefers to
use xemacs and a command line instead of a heavy GUI environment.

	-Mark

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Mark Craig Chu-Carroll,  IBM T.J. Watson Research Center  
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