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Re: Eclipse SDK vs. Eclipse Platform SDK vs. Eclipse Project SDK [message #544060 is a reply to message #543997] |
Thu, 01 July 2010 13:42 |
Randy Hudson Messages: 123 Registered: July 2009 |
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As Mauro Molinari was saying, the SDK could be useful when you yourself are not just using eclipse as an IDE, but also developing plugins for eclipse. But, if you're not developing plug-ins that make use of the JDT, PDE, etc., then you don't need the whole eclipse project and its source code. Also, imagine you're developing plug-ins for eclipse 3.5, but you're using eclipse 3.6 for development. So, you download both the 3.5 and 3.6 versions of the eclipse SDK. You launch 3.6, and configure the PDE to use 3.5 as your target runtime. But the help system plug-ins (API reference, javadoc, etc.) in your target 3.5 SDK aren't accessible from your IDE (3.6 SDK). Similarly, if you are developing something that needs EMF, GEF, etc., and you add their SDKs to your 3.5 target (not your IDE), then you won't have their help plug-ins in your IDE either.
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Re: Eclipse SDK vs. Eclipse Platform SDK vs. Eclipse Project SDK [message #544103 is a reply to message #544099] |
Thu, 01 July 2010 15:16 |
David Wegener Messages: 1445 Registered: July 2009 |
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Vlad,
The responders to your posts seem to be having a problem understanding what
you are asking. You seem to understand the concept of an SDK and why it is
not included in the binary download.
Your question appears to be related to which SDK you need to download.
There are are 3 different SDKs included in the Helios release that have
similar names, Eclipse SDK, Eclipse Platform SDK, and Eclipse Project SDK.
I noticed this as well. The Available Software dialog for installing on
Helios doesn't give any additional information to the user distinguish
between the different SDKs. You seem to want to know what source files are
included in each. Say for example you want to make a change to JDT, which
SDK do you need to download to get the source for JDT. Is it Eclipse SDK,
Eclipse Platform SDK, or Eclipse Project SDK.
What types of development does the Eclipse SDK support?
What types of development does the Eclpse Platform SDK support?
What types of development does the Eclipse Project SDK support?
Unfortunatly, I don't have an answer for you. Hopefully some of the other
responders will now realize what you are asking and be able to explain the
difference between these 3 SDKs.
"Tom Schindl" <tom.schindl@bestsolution.at> wrote in message
news:i0ia61$lcj$1@build.eclipse.org...
> Having the source is one of MAJOR advantages of OpenSource. You can step
> through it with the debugger, you can look at the implementation if the
> documentation is not good enough, ... .
>
> Tom
>
> Am 01.07.10 16:37, schrieb vlad.balan:
>> "So, you download both the 3.5 and 3.6 versions of the eclipse SDK"
>>
>> What i don't understand is why you need 2 times the sources: once ofr
>> the IDE and for the target?
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>> Let's say i understand the need for sources in the sens that maybe you
>> need to modify them. Otherwise the compiled code would be enought to
>> compile my source code against.
>>
>> But why source code from 2 locations: the IDE SDK and the target SDK.
>>
>>
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