| clearing out the confusion with rc4, stable, integration [message #84763] |
Fri, 08 July 2005 13:19  |
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Originally posted by: savithari.yahoo.com
Hello All:
I am trying to understand the differences between
3.1RC4 vs 3.1 vs 3.1 Stable vs Integration
Also, what does RC4 mean, literally what does RC stand for ?
How does this tie into RCP ?
For a person using eclipse for about 2 years now, I dont understand the
differences in the sdk vs rcp vs the various other download stuff.
Can anyone help or point to a url that I (the fool) can look at ?
Thank You
Regards,
-Narahari
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| Re: clearing out the confusion with rc4, stable, integration [message #84869 is a reply to message #84763] |
Fri, 08 July 2005 19:25  |
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Originally posted by: wharley.bea.com
"Narahari" <savithari@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:fc7377dd422485c22ace27f416d639f9$1@www.eclipse.org...
> Hello All:
>
> I am trying to understand the differences between
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> 3.1RC4 vs 3.1 vs 3.1 Stable vs Integration
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> Also, what does RC4 mean, literally what does RC stand for ?
>
> How does this tie into RCP ?
>
> For a person using eclipse for about 2 years now, I dont understand the
> differences in the sdk vs rcp vs the various other download stuff.
>
> Can anyone help or point to a url that I (the fool) can look at ?
RC stands for "release candidate". While a product is in development, it
goes through milestone releases (eg 3.1M7), then release candidates (eg
3.1RC4), then finally the released version, which just has a version number
(eg 3.1). In between these releases, there are interim builds for the sake
of testing. Depending on their purpose these have various names, such as
"stable" and "integration".
Now that 3.1 is released, the version you want is just "3.1", not anything
else.
RCP stands for "rich client platform". It is a subset of Eclipse plugins
that permit you to write your own applications based on the Eclipse
platform. Various other subsets and supersets of Eclipse are also
available: for instance, the SDK ("software development kit"), which is a
full version of the Eclipse IDE ("integrated development environment") that
also includes source code so that you can develop plugins.
If you are just using Eclipse as a Java IDE to develop Java projects, then
what you probably want is the "JDT Runtime Binary". (JDT stands for "Java
Development Tooling".) This, and the other 3.1 release subsets, are
described on the 3.1 downloads page,
http://download.eclipse.org/downloads/drops/R-3.1-2005062714 35/index.php
(accessible by clicking the "Other Downloads for 3.1" link on the main
Eclipse downloads page).
Hope that helps,
-Walter Harley
BEA Systems Inc.
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