I have spent the last day or so self-hosting
full time using Eclipse 4.0 SDK builds. While there are lots of bugs and
errors in the log, I have encountered no impediment that prevented my ability
to get work accomplished using these builds as my regular IDE. I strongly
encourage the rest of the team, and any bleeding edge adopters in the community,
to try use Eclipse 4.0 SDK builds as their IDE for daily development. The
sooner we are feeling the pain of bugs as users ourselves, the faster we
will make progress in the areas that matter for end users.
To avoid everyone entering the same
well-known bugs over and over, and to help focus our priorities for the
next milestone, I have started a list on the wiki of "self hosting
impediments". Think of this like our regular end of release polish
list, but in our case the polish items are much bigger. Feel free to add
things to the list, increase priorities, remove items that are fixed, etc.
The list is found here:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/E4/Self_Hosting
There is a new Eclipse 4.0 SDK build
available, which includes the latest contributions for this week's 3.6
integration build. If you are using M5 you can upgrade to it by adding
the following repository to your available software sites list: