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Re: [egit-dev] How to build [EJ]Git?
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torsdagen den 7 januari 2010 19.12.16 skrev Jason van Zyl:
> On 2010-01-07, at 11:17 AM, Thomas Hallgren wrote:
> > The 'headless Eclipse instance' that you rule out is an plug-in framework
> > with some bundles. How is that different from Maven?
> >
> > One important difference is of course that this framework is built on
> > OSGi and can utilize the exact same build environment as you normally do
> > in the IDE. There is no separate installer. No redundant meta-data, no
> > additional plug-in framework. It just works.
>
> If you're talking about a headless Eclipse install, it does not just work.
> Ever tried it on a Unix machine without X installed? Every tried it with a
> build and release engineer who's never used an IDE? It doesn't just work.
> Nothing just works. Maven and Ant included and requiring an installation
> of Eclipse doesn't make this easier.
Not having X (ok, I did have the libs but no $DISPLAY) was not problem.
Figuring out how to tweak all ant and properties files was not so easy. Look
at Visual Studio for an example of how simple it could be. Just launch the
same ide with a switch and and the same workspace configuration you
use when using the gui and it does the exact same thing.
-- robin
