Re: development on windows

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Anthony W. Youngman wrote:

> In message <address@hidden>, Graham Percival
> <address@hidden> writes
> >2)  I don't know what the current favorite fancy IDE is, although
> >I'm fairly certain that Eclipse runs on Linux.  I'm not certain if
> >that would actually be good for LilyPond, though -- does it
> >support C++ and makefiles?  IIRC eclipse is for java stuff.
> 
> Actually, Eclipse is for almost anything ...

Except things like netbooks.

> I seem to remember that IBM are touting it as *the* IDE for developing 
> the U2 databases in (I'm a U2 developer professionally), though I've 
> never been into IDEs so I've not really followed it.
> 
> Eclipse is (iirc) written in Java, but that doesn't mean it's only meant 
> for Java development (emacs is written in lisp, but it's certainly not 
> used just for lisp development!)

You need the "CDT" edition of Eclipse, and last time I checked, which is 
admittedly some time ago, it was pretty limited, which surprised me given 
the sheer size.

Ciao,
Dscho