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

["Horváth, Csaba" <hcs33@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

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"Gregg Wonderly" <gergg@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Brian Matzon" <brian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > Problem is, that what you need of eclipse, is much less than it
> > provides. Eclipse is a full (well, almost) featured Integrated
> > Development Environment.
>
> So why can't it just compile my files correctly?  It seems like getting
that
> part right would be easy for the developers.  But, I fear that the eclipse
> developers just don't understand how fundamental staying out of the way of
> simple operations is to good GUI design.
>
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There is a 'wontfix' bug report for this:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=16209
It's about Eclipse's incremental compiler. I think the developer's initially
did not want to create an extra mapping between source files and classes for
an extra goal which matters only every 10000th of  developers.
However, it is an open-source project, so you have always the opportunity to
change things in it. As far as I remember there was not so many people
argues this behaviour in the newsgroups and there is not a single vote on
this bug report so I think *most* people are satisfied with this behaviour.
As a "brigde solution" you can use Ant to copy your sources in a folder
structure Eclipse likes and vica versa (I know it is not perfect but at
least you can try Eclipse with your larger projects and you can use the
original version control as well). Since Ant scripts can added as an
"external tool builder" you can do this automatically with every build.

Regards,
Csaba