Eclipse Development

[Nitinol]

Eclipse is unnecessarily resource hungry, a common drawback to software written in Java. Although Eclipse itself is available for multiple platforms, getting mcc18 to work on Linux is problematic as it relies on Wine, though that is a problem that can be overcome.
http://forum.microchip.com/tm.aspx?m...2&key=&#212261
There is an issue running mcc18 on 64 bit processors.

Assuming that these problems are overcome, most of the Linux community already relies heavily on Makefiles because a good majority of Open Source Linux Software is distributed as Source which requires compilation after downloading. Eclipse is indeed resource hungry, and unnecessarily large as a general purpose IDE. You're taking a general purpose IDE and using it for a specific purpose. Most of the Linux community already uses a combination of Makefiles and Emacs for nearly all of their programming needs.
Perhaps I should look into creating a pre-customized Emacs for the purpose of working with mcc18.
I've created an unfinished but functional Portable IDE-like program written in Perl, as a Test of Concept. If there's a large enough Linux community within the Chief Delphi Programming community, I can adapt this program to run under Linux, so long as they have mcc18 set up.
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=50708

I'm sorry I do not mean to bash anyone's project, I hope it did not seem that way.
It's still a great idea, and I would more than love to contribute to its development.
Eclipse is also a very versatile IDE, and does have several advantages over using using a few customizations in combination with makefiles.
Or some poorly written perhaps unreliable custom IDE.
(I suppose I should be allowed to bash my own project)

My apologies again.