Joerg Heinicke schrieb:
On 03.04.2008 23:33, Jörg Heinicke (JIRA) wrote:
With Mac OS X I also have no access to the source code of the JDK.
Which makes me wonder again how to do serious Java development with Mac
OS X. I know a few of you guys are using Mac OS X. How do you do it?
I switched from Windows to Mac 4 years ago, and the only things I'm
missing are Half-Life and Strikeforce :) The time I used to spend on
installing ZoneAlarm & Co. is now happily spent on keyboard shortcut
configuration in Eclipse.
Whenever I start this I get annoyed very fast. The missing Java sources
are only the tip of the iceberg. Every tree representation in Eclipse
just sucks.
The indentation is a bit wide, and the horizontal scrolling is annoying,
but maybe that's why Apple has invented the mighty mouse (which I, alas,
do not possess) :)
Keyboard navigation in Mac OS X is completely inconsistent,
especially with Java programs. There seems to be no serious SVN command
line client (or at least the CollabNet download page is just
self-linking at the moment:
http://downloads.open.collab.net/binaries.html).
I use the Metissian subversion client, and I didn't notice any problems yet.
Speaking of which: Windows doesn't have a serious command-line at all,
or has this changed with Vista? cygwin doesn't come close to a native
Unix IMO.
And so on ... Windows
has also bunch of annoying issues but there is at least consistency and
usually there is a solution for everything. Do you guys all switch to
Linux when it comes to Java development? :)
IMO the situation with Java is quite acceptable. Porting shell scripts
from a Linux environment is a PITA, though.
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