| Re: [cdt-dev] Speaking of Linux Desktop |
Hi, On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 13:48 -0300, Daniel Felix Ferber wrote: > 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 don't think gcj/gij is as bad as you say but this is going away with OpenJDK. And there's always been the option to run with a proprietary JVM. > 2) Even worse, these Linux distros do not easy the installation of > quality Java VMs, like those from Sun or IBM. The distros that do this are committed to Free Software which those VMs are not. > 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. I can't think of any customizations other than making things compile with distro-included packages like Firefox or a different version of Tomcat (for help). Eclipse is built by the distros using the JDT Core compiler (ecj) just like it is with an upstream download. The post-processing native compilation is only used if one is using gij. The bytecode is present and the same as an upstream download. > 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. I can't say I've experienced this. But this is obviously an SWT issue. > There were several other major issues, but I was very pleased to see > CDT 4.0 solve most of them! While I'm not discrediting the great work that went into the CDT 4.0, I don't see how it has solved any of these issues :) Andrew
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