[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: Newcomer first impression: Piece of Crap

[wegener@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (David Wegener)]

Dave Dyer wrote:


> This was my third or fourth attempt to grok eclipse, and every time, my
> first impression has been "what a piece of crap".  Eclipse is monumentally
> unfriendly to experienced have users with complex projects to import.

> Well, this time I finally got past it all and got one of my major projects
> running. so I can offer some more coherent complaints.

> 1) The message "resource x is out of sync with the file system" is
> ubiquitous.  There seem to be at least three variations on it.  Since
> there is no other activity than what eclipse is doing, there is no
> excuse for it to be confused or breaking itself in this way.

> 2) there ought to be a way to point eclipse at a project already
> in place, and get it to use the sources in place.

There is a way.  When creating the project, uncheck use default location 
and browse to where your project resides on the file system.  Depending on 
whether the location is the root of your package hiearchy, you may need to 
define source directories under the base location.


> 3) there ought to be a way to include/exclude files or directories 
> from a project build list, without removing them from eclipse's
> hierarchy view, and especially without deleting them from the file
> system.  Mature projects accumulate a lot of extra stuff which needs
> to not confuse the IDE.