Eclipse On Pandora?

[crasherball]

hi,
I wonder if it will be possible to install eclipse on pandora
I mean...its a huge program....
does anybody know the system-requirements for eclipse?

are there such things as requirements for eclipse?

 

[Kramy]

1) Wrong section.

2) The Pandora doesn't ship with a full QWERTY keyboard or mouse, which would likely make coding on it difficult. Someone will probably try to get it to run, but it's not going to be out-of-the-box software.

 

[atomicthumbs]

A better idea would be something based on wxscintilla and gcc.

 

[sindbad]

I doubt there's enough ram. Look for a text editor, I'm partial to Kate.

 

[yodaofborg]

Eugh, Kate? Don't that require most of the QT3 libs? Pretty silly(and heavy) for just a text editor.

Gimmie nano or vi, I'll be happy

 

[icurafu]

I don't think the keypad is flexible enough for the symbols used in development, maybe with a usb keyboard.

Anyway, eclipse is java plus uses lots of ram and relies on high-res screens.

So, not such a good mix on the pandora.

 

[crasherball]

i expected it to run outofthebox
but ya well, I thought ram would be the problem

about the keyboard: u can actually go ahead and map ur qwerty-keyboard as u want to be able using special-characters
about the mouse: touchscreen?

 

[Parkydr]

Unusable on my 800MHz PC, just usable on 1.6GHz PC, Ok on my 2.4GHz Core Duo at work.

Pandora - no.

 

[javaJake]

Eclipse is definitely a huge IDE. Gentoo itself warns that if you don't have at least 512 MB of free RAM during compile, you're gonna go into swap.

 

[Sphinxter]

and there is no swap.

 

[sindbad]

Komodo Edit is based on xulrunner and is quite lean, should work if you want a full ide.

 

[Vorporeal]

and there is no swap.

He means that Gentoo complains when you compile Eclipse, not when you use Eclipse to compile something. It would be released as a pre-compiled binary, so you wouldn't have to worry about that part of the process. I don't know how much RAM it uses when you are running it though, so I can't say where there are other memory issues present.

 

[crasherball]

alright, thanks for the answers guys

guess I'll be stuck with gedit or pico for my java-programming

 

[Tinnus]

I don't know how much RAM it uses when you are running it though, so I can't say where there are other memory issues present.

It struggled to run (ALONE and without any extra packs, only JDK) in my laptop when it had 256MB of RAM. If I opened any other program, the entire computer was semi-unusable. If I opened just Eclipse and Firefox, I'd better say "oops, I did it again. Better to reboot now than wait for Firefox to get focus."

 

[chadnick]

It'll run vi, and it'll even be (just) powerful enough to run emacs.

What else could you possibly need?

 

[crasherball]

It'll run vi, and it'll even be (just) powerful enough to run emacs.

What else could you possibly need?

eclipse lol

 

[javaJake]

He means that Gentoo complains when you compile Eclipse, not when you use Eclipse to compile something. It would be released as a pre-compiled binary, so you wouldn't have to worry about that part of the process. I don't know how much RAM it uses when you are running it though, so I can't say where there are other memory issues present.

It uses at least 128 MB, if not 256 MB, never mind if you're running the Visual Editor (which alone takes up another 128 MB). I use to have a meter in one version of Eclipse that would tell me how much memory was being used. It would steadily climb to the point where the garbage collector would have to kick in, and I'd see about a 25% drop in usage. To me, that isn't Java's fault, that's a terrible job of memory management on the part of Eclipse developers.

The big feature for me in Eclipse is the nice auto-completion feature. Once you've selected a method, it'll even list out each argument as you type. That I'd like, especially on a small keyboard like the Pandora.