Hello
Martin,
You
will have to pardon me for being a rookie when it comes to Eclipse. I am just
getting started with it.
I
see what you mean about Europa and Ganymede providing checkpoints that nail
down version integrity.
I
suppose what I was hoping for was a merged up download including DSDP and RSE
like Eclipse/CDT at:
I
see now that with so many plugins, it isn't necessarily practical to
anticipate some universally desired combination, and mechanisms exist for
users to add plugins as wanted.
I
imagine vendors such as Wind River and QNX who use Eclipse/CDT in commercial
offerings will end up assembling the kind of package I envision, streamlined
for embedded developers. It would be nice if we had a free, generic
package that does the same, but that might be hard to do since it might assume
a particular target architecture or development board type and
toolchain.
I
see that as an alternative to using the Eclipse hosted Software Updates
mechanism to install the DSDP and RSE plugins, there is also a way to download
ZIP files and (presumably) do a manual install. That approach might give
me the version integrity I seek, between annual releases such as Europa and
Ganymede. My objective is to have only a small set of tested files, and
a minimal installation procedure, that our embedded developers can use to
bring up identical Eclipse development platforms.
The
missing piece may be a simple 'getting started' guide that helps the Eclipse
novice get Eclipse/CDT, DSDP, and RSE up and running without so much web
searching to learn what those projects are, how they all tie together, and the
best way to assemble them (which I don't think I know yet). I suspect
each novice re-invents this wheel.
That
'getting started' guide may already exist, and I just haven't come across it
yet. I would think this rises to the level of an article at IBM
developerworks, O'Reilly, or one of the monthly Linux print magazines.
In
any event, Eclipse/CDT/DSDP/RSE looks great, and if the price of admission is
a few days of web searching to figure it all out, it is still well worth
it.
Thanks.
Jim
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Original Message ----
From: "Oberhuber, Martin"
<Martin.Oberhuber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: General discussion of device
software development platform issues. <dsdp-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent:
Wednesday, November 21, 2007 3:50:28 AM
Subject: RE: [dsdp-dev] Single
distribution tarball for Eclipse/CDT/DSDP/RSE
Hello Jim,
The Eclipse "Europa" and "Ganymede" coordinated release
trains
seem to do what you want - simultaneous releases with
version
integrity:
You don't get a single tarball, but you can get Eclipse
Platform
and then grab all the other projects from the Ganymede
Update
Site in a single step.
Besides, I'm not sure what you mean with a "DSDP"
project?
Cheers,
--
Martin Oberhuber
Wind River Systems,
Inc.
Target Management Project Lead, DSDP PMC Member
http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm
Hello,
I recently experimented with using Eclipse/CDT plus DSDP and RSE to
cross-compile and cross-debug from an x86 host running Fedora Core to an
ARM9 embedded target.
It works great, and I would like to consider using this combination in
a production environment. But installing the several plugins from CVS
and carrying the plugins around as part of my project gives me pause.
Are there plans to roll up official versions of Eclipse, CDT, DSDP, and
RSE, and release them as a single, convenient distribution, like
Eclipse/CDT?
If I could save that single distribution tarball and install it at
will, with guaranteed version integrity, Eclipse/CDT/DSDP/RSE is rather
compelling.
Thanks.
Jim
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