Hi,
obviously, anything that makes our beginner users’ lives easier is welcome. If you have time for this, I’m very much in favor.
However I’m not sure how big a difference this would actually make. Maybe this would be the most useful for users of milestones (=testers, students, etc), as releases are (IMHO) sufficiently straightforward to install via the Marketplace, and anyone using the integration builds is smart enough to know how to do so.
Istvan
On 3 Apr 2015 at 17:23:30, David, Istvan (davidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
Hi guys,
I had a not-so-pleasant experience recently with an
inexperienced Eclipse user trying to install VIATRA and all its
prerequisites. It made me wondering whether we should kinda "lower
the threshold" for getting started with our tools.
As you probably know, Xtext provides pre-configured Eclipse
instances with the latest released Xtext version: https://www.eclipse.org/Xtext/download.html.
As the first release of VIATRA3 is coming, maybe we could consider
doing so as well.
This would definitely make it easier to get started with our
tools. (And PR-wise speaking: it would also increase the chances to
attract new users, especially the ones lacking experience in
Eclipse.)
On the other hand though, this is obviously only feasible in an
automated fashion, which means putting effort into
"extra-functional development", to say so. (That is, spending
undoubtedly fun hours/days/weeks with Hudson, Maven and
related stuff.)
What do you think?
My 2c is that it would worth the efforts, although I understand if
some of you find this an overkill at first glance. Anyhow, let's
have a conversation on this and the possible alternatives.
I kinda suspect this has been discussed previously, so any pointers
to older threads are welcome. :)
Cheers,
Istvan
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