Re: Eclipse components

Chris Smith <cdsmith@xxxxxxx> wrote or quoted:
> Tim Tyler <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Are the Eclipse compiler and formatter available as stand-alone
> > components yet?
>
> I'm not aware of the formatter being available this way. The compiler
> appears to be used in Jasper as distributed with Tomcat 5.5, so it is at
> least possible to use it this way.
>
> > If not why not? Is it something to do with being big and blue?
> > Or do they not want their competitors using these components?
>
> Mainly because you haven't packaged it that way yet. Let's get back to
> reality here! There's no point acting like this is some big IBM
> conspiracy to keep the functionality under wraps. It's open source.
> Understandably, the project developers want to spend their time making
> Eclipse better... and I'm quite grateful for that. I think it's a wise
> decision on their part.

If a component is viable as a modular element, then the larger the
audience it has, the more developers it attracts, the faster development
goes, and the better the tool gets.

As far as I can see, an Eclipse-only formatter is a project that doesn't
make much sense.

*Most* formatters can be plugged into any IDE, or used from the command
line.

The Eclipse formatter appears to suffer from not having any command-line
interface.

How do you format all the files in a project?

It's a symptom of the underlying problem.

What's the cause of the problem? As you can see from my speculations, I
don't really know - but I am interested in the cause of it - since it
seems to be repeatedly causing monolith-related problems for Eclipse.
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