Re: KDE UserLinux metapackages?

On Tuesday 10 February 2004 23:03, Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> Ivan Petrouchtchak wrote:
> > Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> >> Java => Eclipse-sdk
> >>
> >>
> >> Stupid question: what is eclipse actually ?
> >
> > http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/faq/eclipse-faq.html#about_8
> >
> >> Is it simply an IDE ? Why is there so much hype around it ?
> >
> > Because of the big names and support behind it,
>
> I don't think that's all to it. I am not a programmer, but guessing
> from people who are, and on whose judgement I trust, Eclipse is a
> really powerful thing already. It is very modular and flexible,
> and counts to date several hundert plugins to do different things.
> It is not for Java only, while it is written in Java. It seems to
> support more programming (old and new) languages than any other
> IDE...

From what I heard, Java support is very good, but plugins for othr languages 
are more proof-of-concept implementations.

Anyway, the Java developers I know say it is the best currently available Java 
IDE, however the GTK2 based SWT is quite slow.
Someone (IIRC IBM themselves) has developed a SWT implementation based on Qt 
but won't release it ("licence issues")

Cheers,
Kevin

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Kevin Krammer <[email protected]>
Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User
www.mrunix.de - Unix/Linux programming forum
www.qtforum.org - Qt programming forum

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