[NTLUG:Discuss] Eclipse - running out of RAM?

[steve at sjbaker.org]

> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 08:34:54PM -0700, steve at sjbaker.org wrote:
>> Wow! That sucks. I've been thinking about porting some games and such to
>> the
>> Google "Android" phone platform - I grabbed their SDK but it comes with
>> a
>> bunch of requirements - one of which is to use Eclipse.
>
> How could an application "require" Eclipse?  All Eclipse is (or any
> other IDE for that matter) is a wrapper around the SDK.  What magic
> does Eclipse impart on said project that java/javac and a
> well-constructed classpath can't do?

It's not the application that needs eclipse - it's the development tools
in the SDK - which (I presume) include some eclipse plugins.  I'm not 100%
sure about that because I only just downloaded & installed everything. 
I'll know more as I get into it.