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Actually, it doesn’t appear that the issues have anything to do with Eclipse on each platform, at least at this point. It’s more a matter of tieing up loose ends on our part and making sure we’re using File.separator instead of \\ or something dumb like that. But trust me, if we find an incompatibility within Eclipse across platforms, we’ll be sure to surface it to the platform team. Right now though, it appears the fault rests with us.
However, this did cause an interesting internal development. One of our leads decided he was switching to a Mac for a good bit of his development to make sure this type of thing didn’t hinder us again in the future.
–Scott
MyEclipse SupportNo kidding that a lot of the eclipse plugins are turning to be Windows only? Geez that could seriously suck for us java developers…
P.S.> Maybe this topic should be stick? It seems every other post is about Eclipse 3 working with ME.
I know plugins for Web development and GUI and all develop windows version and later linux (or neve linux)
– lomboz (have a problem with linux)
– w4t Visual Editor (don’t linux port)
– Visual Editor from eclipse team (work horibble on linux)
– myeclipse
– metanology (first windows version, then Linux – )All work special for linux and windows
If I haven’t right then why You have 3 downloads – for linux, windows and Mac
I try netbeans – I build version on linux and copy files to windows and all is fine – that is true Java.
regards
Haris Peco12 days delay for File.Separator ? ?
There’s a bit more to it than that on the code side. But even if that was it, you’re also overlooking the fact that a software product is very different from just software. Products have build processes, QA, installer packaging, more QA, then website updates and deployments. All this takes time. We get an economy of scale from doing more than one at a time so we’re going to push everything through with the M6 builds. We go through all this so we can consistently deliver as high a quality product as possible. Code modifications are only a small part of it.
If I haven’t right then why You have 3 downloads – for linux, windows and Mac
We have three downloads only because we have double-click installers that are customized for each platform. The software versions they install are identical.
Our commitment to Mac, Linux, and the M-builds has not wavered. We simply hit a problem in QA and had to make the call: do we hold up all releases, or just the ones exhibiting the problems. We chose to do the latter since 90% of our user base is on Windows.
–Scott
MyEclipse Support10% of users is hugely important and we expect our Mac and Linux percentages to grow greatly over time. We were simply in a no win situation. We could’ve held all the builds for additional QA, thereby disappointing everyone, or we could release the builds that passed and hold those that didn’t, which is what we did. Of course, by doing that we’ve disappointed some but not all. If the Linux build had been the only one to pass QA, it would’ve gone out and the others wouldn’t have. There was simply no answer that was going to please everyone. We just did the best we could, given the circumstances. What do you think the right answer would’ve been?
–Scott
MyEclipse Supportsnpe Scott didn’t say that at all, he just said they release the version that didn’t exhibit the problem to get the product out to the greedy hands of the windows users… what is wrong with that? What if Windows had a problem and they had released the Mac and Linux builds first? Would that mean ME doesn’t care about Windows users? No way, they are just being curteous to their eager user base.
It is fine.
I download myeclipse for win and install to linux
What is the most important problem with linux ?
I create struts project without a problem (for now)Thanks
Haris PecoM6 was released just a few days ago. Scott already said a release supporting M6 was due either the 22nd (today) or the 23rd.
I don’t think pestering Scott before this timeframe is up is going to speed things up.
Sorry to rant (I know you weren’t trying to nag), but Scott’s fantastic about responding to support requests and questions in general, and deserves patience on our part to wait until the stated delivery window closes before asking again.
hi scott,
don’t mean to be a nag myself, but just curious if you can give all of us M6 users an update as to the 3.6 release schedule. thanks!
james
@scott wrote:
Well, it was supposed to be last night, but there were just some incompatibilities we need to work through. The current plan is to put out RC2 on all platforms as well as an M6 build on all platforms on 12/22. Sorry for the delay, but even as a releas candidate we know people will start using it for production work so we like to have a high degree of confidence in it before it goes out the door.
–Scott
MyEclipse SupportWhen will there be support for M6?
