Re: [avr-gcc-list] AVR Studio 4.19 does not work with AVR Toolchain 3.4.0 (informative)

[David Brown]

On 09/08/2012 17:20, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> On 09.08.12 16:05, David Brown wrote:
> > For what it's worth, I too dislike the newer AVR Studio - partly
> > because I do most of my development work with Linux, and partly
> > because even on Windows it is a bloated mess.  I can't figure out why
> > they decided to use MS VS as a base - the industry has practically
> > standardised on Eclipse, and the single biggest request from users
> > for AVR Studio 5 was that it be cross-platform.  But I guess Atmel
> > had their reasons, and they are certainly good at making the compiler
> > toolchain easily available from Linux, so I don't want to complain
> > /too/ much.
>
> Quite a few people like Eclipse - I pretty much only hear good things
> about it. But I'm too old to change my text hacking mindset from text
> based toolsets - and I'm welded onto the gnu toolchain, across a number
> of target platforms, having used it exclusively in the latter half of a
> quarter century of embedded development. (ctags and a few bits and
> pieces give me enough of Eclipse's bells and whistles to keep me
> happy.) So long as that's convenient on linux, I'll continue to use
> AVRs.
>
> Erik

I like Eclipse these days - it's much better than it used to be.  I find 
the navigation tools, syntax highlighting, and as-you-type checking to 
be very useful.  But I do all the builds using external makefiles rather 
than Eclipse's project management - it's an editor only, for the most 
part (I use it as a debugger too on some targets).  I like to be able to 
ssh into my development machine, edit files with nano (a simple 
text-based editor for those that don't know), and rebuild with "make".

mvh.,

David