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.
