Re: Cake, Eclipse and PDT (long - warning: includes rant)

2007-06-09 Thread Chris Lamb
Langdon Stevenson wrote: And scripatability. For example, I have a simple script here that locates the nearest Cake app, finds an unused port and starts a webserver pointed at it. Also, my concept of updating my sites involve running make release only. No faffing with FTP for me,

Cake, Eclipse and PDT (long - warning: includes rant)

2007-06-07 Thread Langdon Stevenson
Hi, I thought that I would share my recent experience with the group of moving my CakePHP development environment from: Eclipse (with PDT) on Windows (XP) to: Eclipse (with PDT) on Linux (Fedora 7 - 64 bit) As you can imagine, this has been a huge challenge. I have some experience

Re: Cake, Eclipse and PDT (long - warning: includes rant)

2007-06-07 Thread Joshua Benner
Eclipse with PDT on Linux has been my primary developing environment for CakePHP for months -- VERY smooth. I rarely install the distribution-specific packages for eclipse, because they like to put files all over the system, whereas an eclipse download is all in the eclipse folder. As far as

Re: Cake, Eclipse and PDT (long - warning: includes rant)

2007-06-07 Thread Tane Piper
I run the 32b version and find it very smooth. You may find that increasing the memory available to the JVM helps make it smoother: eclipse -vmargs -Xms256M -Xmx512M This will set the minimum memory to be 256Mb, and max 512Mb. I find you don't need to give Eclipse more than 1Gb (on a 4Gb

Re: Cake, Eclipse and PDT (long - warning: includes rant)

2007-06-07 Thread Langdon Stevenson
Hi Josh Eclipse with PDT on Linux has been my primary developing environment for CakePHP for months -- VERY smooth. I rarely install the distribution-specific packages for eclipse, because they like to put files all over the system, whereas an eclipse download is all in the eclipse folder.

Re: Cake, Eclipse and PDT (long - warning: includes rant)

2007-06-07 Thread Langdon Stevenson
Hi Chris As far as having multiple java installations, do some reading about the alternatives system -- perhaps start with 'man alternatives' The alternatives is a feature of Debian-derivative distros so will not appear in Fedora. Strangely enough then, it does :-) Alternatives is

Re: Cake, Eclipse and PDT (long - warning: includes rant)

2007-06-07 Thread Joshua Benner
Chris Lamb wrote: Joshua Benner wrote: As far as having multiple java installations, do some reading about the alternatives system -- perhaps start with 'man alternatives' The alternatives is a feature of Debian-derivative distros so will not appear in Fedora. Actually, Red

Re: Cake, Eclipse and PDT (long - warning: includes rant)

2007-06-07 Thread Langdon Stevenson
Hi Tane I run the 32b version and find it very smooth. You may find that increasing the memory available to the JVM helps make it smoother: eclipse -vmargs -Xms256M -Xmx512M Good point. This will set the minimum memory to be 256Mb, and max 512Mb. I find you don't need to give Eclipse

Re: Cake, Eclipse and PDT (long - warning: includes rant)

2007-06-07 Thread Chris Lamb
Joshua Benner wrote: As far as having multiple java installations, do some reading about the alternatives system -- perhaps start with 'man alternatives' The alternatives is a feature of Debian-derivative distros so will not appear in Fedora. Right now I develop on Ubuntu 7.02 with Eclipse