[News.eclipse.foundation] Re: What is the future of RCP?

[Robert Möstl <robert.moestl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello John,

I agree with you.

By the way I use your book "Official eclipse 3.0 FAQs". It is very helpful.

John Arthorne wrote:
>  > To summarize it took me far too long to understand that RCP is part 
> of Equinox.
>
> It seems the messages are still a bit mixed, because RCP isn't part of 
> Equinox. It seems the problem is using the code name "Equinox" on this 
> main page where it doesn't seem to fit. I.e., the five listed pillars 
> are "Enterprise, Embedded, Equinox, Application Frameworks, Language 
> IDE".  Four of those categories are descriptive, and one of them is a 
> project name that likely has no meaning for a newcomer. Perhaps the 
> fifth pillar as listed on the main page should say "Runtimes" or 
> "Equinox Runtimes".  Of course RCP is more of an application framework 
> on top of the Equinox runtime, so it's not clear how it fits into the 
> big picture.
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