On 07/30/2013 04:19 PM, Campo,
Christian wrote:
Maybe
its also because I do a lot of RCP development and always
download the RCP packages for the Eclipse IDE. Recently I
decided to do some WTP stuff for myself. And the easiest way
for me was to download a WTP Eclipse IDE. So maybe you can
say that I could have downloaded some features from the
Kepler repo. But I wasnt sure what was necessary so I
downloaded a new IDE. (Felt strange, but worked)
So
after that I thought, maybe I would preferred an IDE that
can do „everything java“ aka „ultimate“...
You usage of the IDE seems to show that even if you know it's
possible to have everything in the same IDE, you prefered to
download a second IDE and have an IDE for RCP and an IDE for Web
applications development.
Your use-case seems opposed to what you're advocating for, so I'm
curious: If you did not find the value of creating a "utilmate IDE"
and prefered multiple IDEs, why do you think a "Ultimate" IDE would
be better.
Here is my story to advocate against a "Ultimate IDE": I used to
have much stuff in the same IDE for a few monthes, it contained my
work stuff (mainly RCP) and some entertainment stuff (WTP, JBoss
Tools and Android Dev Tools). My work tools and entertainment
activities are not related at all. One day, I got angry of having
too much stuff in that IDE and I spitted it because I used to get
bugs coming from Android Tools when doing some RCP work, and WTP was
doing some extra validation which was time consuming and because I
was upset by many menus that are irrelevant; and the other way
round, I got a lot of irrelevant noise and UI elements coming from
PDE when doing to Web/Android development. Since them, I'm much
happier in both of these activity-centric IDEs.
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