Could someone please remind me again why so many people seem to like Eclipse? A colleague of mine at RTI took one of my distributed C++ applications and turned it into an Appliance via VMWare (and/or) VirtualBox. All you have to do is run the appliance in a VM and you can emulate running distributed applications on a cluster, all the while sitting in front of whatever your favorite flavor of OS happens to be.
The virtual machine is Ubuntu with OpenMPI installed, so you can emulate bazillions of distributed machines on a single CPU, which is a pretty cool and painless development and debugging environment. In fact the whole "Appliance" concept and the way it was implemented is pretty cool -- wish I'd thought of it myself. But, as part of the "Appliancification" process he put my app into Eclipse inside the VM, and as I sit here trying to relearn how to navigate around in Eclipse I find myself wondering why *anybody* would to prefer to work in that IDE straight jacket, rather than just using an editor and Makefiles, as Dog intended... --Doug -- Doug Roberts [email protected] [email protected] 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell
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