Very Large Eclipse Projects
At work we have a large project. Possibly the most complex I’ve been involved in with respect to organizational issues. A number of groups are involved, all trying to build the main software product, as well as integrate their own software. Also, the product in development has a number of dependencies that really need to be managed in an automated way because we can not depend on each vendor to download the correct version of all the tools in the tool chain. In fact I really do not trust them to download, configure, build, and install gcc correctly.
So the question is, can I use Eclipse in a platform independent way to manage dependencies that include the gcc compiler, gdb, xerces, libitt(?), and the project code itself?
Of course it needs to work with svn and not actually depend on each vendor being willing to use Eclipse and CDT.
What I really want for myself is to be able to use Eclipse for development and debugging, but to support the standard:
./configure
make
make install
I may do some experiments at home to see if I can get Eclipse to work as I desire.
It needs to work fast as well - I notice at work that Eclipse and Subeclipse plug-in seem to be really slow right now, and I do not know if this is because of the project organization, or if it can be fixed at all.