[lug] Favorite IDEs for linux?

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> ">" == Siegfried Heintze <siegfried at heintze.com> writes:

>> Sun just made a big ruckus about GPLing java about a month or so ago. I went
>> to their site and they were bragging that java compiled on ubuntu. Do you
>> suppose the linux community is a little behind the times on updating their
>> repositories that apt-get uses?

Not all of Sun's code is available under the GPL yet.  So far some
tools (javac primarily) and hotspot are.  The rest is coming soon.

So, no, the distros are not behind.

>> I remember FC 4 came with eclipse already installed but it was compiled with
>> gjc instead of sun's java. Last fall I used eclipse everyday to write java
>> but I could not figure out how to even write "hello world" using the eclipse
>> compiled with gjc. I want the version of eclipse compiled with sun's java.

On Fedora, gcj is made to look like an ordinary VM using the
java-gcj-compat package.  So, you should be able to use it as you
would any other JDK.  The packaged Eclipse in Fedora can be run with
any VM, not just gcj.

I don't know what you did or tried.  Things aren't as bad as you make
out.

Tom