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Andy,
The hold up is nasty things like Eclipse bug 52795 that broke resource lookups and XSL transforms along with a few otheres. With each release of a milestone build, we have to migrate all of our changes from our 2.x product in such a way that we don’t break the many 3.0-specific code changes we had to put in place due to all the API changes that showed up beginning in M5. It’s simply very time-consuming to port, retest, and work around bugs for the entire product for every new milestone. Remember, unlike other Eclipse add-ons, this isn’t ‘a plug-in’; it’s ‘a product’ that includes over 60 plugins. 🙂
However, we’ve been doing a lot of that work in parallel with the 2.7 final testing so 3.7 should only lag by a few days if no additional showstoppers are found.
I am on M7 as well. Definitely good to keep up with the milestones ASAP. Definitely looking forward to M7 support! New features in MyEclipse sound great.
Scott,
We’re honestly doing our best. If you’re not a plugin developer, it’s really hard to get a good picture of just how much work porting to and retesting 60+ plugins is for each milestone build. Also bear in mind that we have literally thousands and thousands of users on three supported platforms for our products, so each time we release an M-build version, we’ve got three complete applications to fully retest. We do what we can, but at $30/seat, I’m sure you can imagine that we don’t have 20 people working on this. 🙂
