Eclipse CDT IDE

[Geert Janssens]

Op dinsdag 21 februari 2017 16:38:10 CET schreef Ted Creedon:
> Just a suggestion,
> 
> I've finally succeeded in  getting openafs up under the IBM eclipse IDE.
> 
> Its my opinion that the task/team/remote debugging  feature would reduce
> support effort considerably.
> 
> I encourage experimenting with it.
> 
> Tedc

Heh, I've been using Eclipse for a couple of years now. For me it's a mixed 
success.

It's pretty convenient when it works as intended. Then I found it slow for 
certain things so I learned the command line equivalents and ended up using 
the IDE as an intelligent text editor. "Intelligent" because it does real time 
code analysis and comes with pop-up help while moving the mouse over words.

However it happened more than once that an Eclipse update breaks my complete 
setup and I have to spend hours getting it working properly again. And that's 
getting tiresome.

This week still an update suddenly lost the complete index of all referenced 
functions and variables. So all my code was full of red markers, suggestions 
and inline help stopped working. Most of it was fixed by restoring the search 
path for includes. But this shouldn't have happened in the first place.

And what's worse, Eclipse still refuses to include one of my own (gnucash) 
header files in its index, so each parameter I'm using from that file is 
unknown. I've already spent a couple of hours -again- to try and resolve this.

And so this week I finally gave up on Eclipse. I'm currently experimenting 
with KDevelop which has similar features. I'll see how it will go.

Regardless, I'm glad Eclipse is improving your life!

Geert