[news.eclipse.technology] Re: Eclipse just seems wrong

[Brian Matzon <brian@xxxxxxxxx>]

Gregg Wonderly wrote:
> I have used simple IDEs, such as Symatecs Cafe starting in 1996/1997 and
> then Kawa for the past 6 or so years. I have several large projects that are
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> Maybe I'm just ranting, but I sure am confused why everyone is talking about
> tools which are so problematic to use.  And, don't get me started about

Problem is, that what you need of eclipse, is much less than it 
provides. Eclipse is a full (well, almost) featured Integrated 
Development Environment. It's not just like a fancy editor, which we're 
many that think KAWA is. I like eclipse, I have no problems with its 
structure - nor do my coworkers. However that doesn't mean that eclipse 
fits everybody! If you don't like the "features" of eclipse, and want 
something simpler, then you obviously have to use a "simpler" product, 
instead of stripping it, or adding "weird" options that < 5% of the 
users need.

FWIW, 95% (yes, guessing) of all java developers have their source files 
in a package hierarchy! Those that don't have some technical, often 
preprocessing, reason for not having it in a package hierarchy.

/Brian Matzon