Re: A constructive debate: Eclipse or NetBeans?

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Jon Harrop wrote:

Anyway, I agree partially that Eclipse workspace creation should be
easier. I even filed a bug about the fact that you cannot create a fully
working workspace programmatically and then just use it. Eclipse writes a
lot of workspace-specific caches that don't work even inside the same
workstation, let alone after porting them to another user. (And it's even
an error to call them caches if Eclipse won't invalidate them when they
are outdated.)

Ugh. Just me trying it here for the time being though. :-)

I didn't quite understand. Let me clarify what I said, just in case you
thought I was talking about something people do every day with Eclipse:

I meant it's virtually impossible to create a _whole_ workspace (with
Eclipse, plugins, projects, settings, just press play on tape...)
programmatically. Individual project settings (and a lot of them) can be
commited to version control and many typical settings work out of the box
after checking them out.

I'll give it a go. I've read a lot of conflicting advice about installing
libraries though. A lot of people say just copy the .jar's
into .../jre/lib/ext/ and the .so's into .../jre/lib/amd64/ but the
official documentation warns against this for non-specific reasons. In the
end, I ignored the advice of the official JOGL docs and installed it by
hand. Compiling and running JOGL demos is easier now but most of them still
don't work.

I have never written anything under the jre/jdk directory. The whole
thought of stabbing installed software makes me feel sick :)

Fortunately, I don't think there's ever any need for that, either.

- Ville Oikarinen
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