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 m

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 Ecl

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. >

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

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 fold

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 Ec

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 machin

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 havi

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 mana