Don’t Use CentOS 7 As A Developer Workstation
Hi, May be it’s not clear to everyone.. so this’s just a quick notice to everyone. Don’t use CentOS 7 as a developer workstation since currently there is not included any developer IDE. As eclipse was pulled out from the main distro and put into Red Hat Developer Toolset (which is imho a good idea not to use a 7 years old IDE). But Red Hat Developer Toolset is still not supported on rhel7 this means currently you have to install eclipse and all other packages from RHDT. Anyway RH said it will be supported…
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6 thoughts on - Don’t Use CentOS 7 As A Developer Workstation
if one can’t build and install a linux os because it is not in the repos he likely has no developer qualifications anyways:-)
i already build and install a few (!?), but still like to install everything from rpm and not mess the whole os with packages and files like on windows..
Why do you assume that, because your IDE of choice is not included, that you should send out a “PSA” style email to multiple CentOS mailing lists?
yes.
and to the original issue: just because it doesn’t have Eclipse, why should that cause everyone to avoid doing development on it? AFAI am concerned, a Unix(-like) system with multiple terminal windows, one for editing, one for compiling, one for testing/debugging is the best IDE there is. (I realize lots of people disagree.) Until someone gives me something easy to use that incoroporates a full clone of vi as its primary editing tool, I’ll stick with the plain and simple.
developer a ready built base system and what he/she installs on it then, I
don’t really care.
Cheers,
Cliff
Oh noes, are sed and gzip not included?
Most of the point of the developer toolset was to get reasonably modern compiler-chain tools (C++ 11 support, etc.) and you get those natively in RHEL/CentOS7 so you don’t have to install ‘all the other’
packages. Eclipse itself is relatively self-contained (like most java applications) and capable of managing its own modules so packaged versions are really a big win.
I’d expect it to show up here:
http://linux.web.cern.ch/linux/devtoolset/#dts21 eventually – unless CentOS picks it up. But it doesn’t seem that important until the stock versions are outdated. If you took your own advice and backed out to CentOS6.x, you might want to use these.