[CMake] cmake support Dev C++

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 30.07.07 18:08:37, Brandon Van Every wrote:
> On 7/30/07, Andy Dingfelder <DingfelderA at sirtrack.com> wrote:
> > Brandon (and everyone else reading this),
> >
> > I fear you misunderstood something from my last message, when you said
> > "CMake's level of Java support is a strategic risk.  Eclipse isn't just
> > a cross-platform crowd, it's a cross-platform heavily Java crowd.  "
> >
> > What I meant was that we need as good as possible integration between
> > cmake and the eclipse CDT.  As I am sure you are aware, the CDT is 100%
> > C++, and has nothing to do with Java.
> 
> No I was not aware of that.  I assumed the CDT uses underlying Java
> components to manipulate C++ text files, and otherwise needs to
> interface to Java in various ways.  The idea that CDT would be
> completely independent from the rest of Eclipse and not have to deal
> with Java at all seems improbable.  But I have not delved into the
> architecture.

What Andy means is that when you install CDT you don't have a Java IDE,
you have a plain C/C++ IDE (unless of course I'm mistaken and there's no
plain-CDT download). Of course CDT still uses the java-written eclipse
platform sdk, but it doesn't have anything else to do with Java. Its
completely about writing C/C++ applications. It also doesn't use the
buildsystem thats used for java projects, but hand-written Makefiles (or
whatever you find a plugin for).

> > What the Eclipse platform really IS though, is a great platform for
> > making IDEs.
> 
> Yes but my assumption is you have to write Java code to make more IDEs.

Right.
 
Andreas

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