Great pointer John. Thanks. This is exactly the kind of reaction we have been talking about. Some folks at least expect to *install* the "SDK" into their IDE (their development environment) and then start a hacking.
It is really pretty impressive just how confusing it can be when expectations/assumptions are mismatched!
BTW, in the interest of shared understanding, I would like to point out a few things about your comment 20. Putting the doc in the target platform does not help as PDE does not contribute target help extensions to the IDE's help system. Developer doc and JavaDoc is not read from the target (well, java doc is read from the source but is not the full production JavaDoc). I've opened Bug 310688 to track this.
Jeff On 2010-04-27, at 1:16 PM, John Arthorne wrote: I just wanted to point those interested in the "SDK" discussion to this recent bug report from a developer trying to install everything needed to develop with SWT (binaries, source, and javadoc). It is exactly along the lines of the recent RT discussions, with the possible difference that he is *not* a plug-in developer, but rather a Java developer wanting to use SWT as a pure Java library. I don't know if this is beyond the scope of your discussions, or if the notion of "target" extends to things beyond OSGi runtime instances. The bug nicely illustrates both the frustration for users of our tools, and the confusion about what it means to "install" a software package into your IDE.
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=310399
John
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 6:05 AM, Christian Campo <Christian.Campo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
I started the discussion page about the SDK. http://wiki.eclipse.org/Talk:SDK. Its not much but I put down what I think about the naming the SDK.
Hope that more people express their opinion.
christian
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