Re: [ide-dev] Java IDEs comparison

[Brian de Alwis <briandealwis@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 15-Sep-2016, at 11:20 AM, Bruno Medeiros <bruno.do.medeiros@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

However, literally the most basic of Eclipse common code: org.eclipse.core.runtime.Assert, is in a bundle that requires not only OSGi but also Equinox specifically... #EpicFail

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There is lots of code there that should have be refactored in into a "commons.io" library, completely independent of Eclipse code. Or better yet, it should have just used Apache Commons IO. 

org.eclipse.core.runtime.Assert was pulled out into such a bundle: org.eclipse.equinox.common.

Hindsight is 20/20.  OSGi is the platform that was chosen and that we live with.  People fix the bugs that either matter to them or that they're paid to tackle.

Brian.