[news.eclipse.tools] Re: Call for screenshots

["Harald Niesche" <harald@xxxxxxxx>]

"Bob Foster" <bob@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "I admit it's been a few months since I looked at it, but last time I
looked
> it didn't even have a "File, Open" option on its menus. EVERYTHING has to
be
> in some kind of project, and you couldn't even pick or choose files in a
> directory, it would import EVERY file in a directory."
>
> Lots of people can't get past Eclipse's inflexible use of the file system.

Those people have probably not worked with any of the other IDE's for more
than ten minutes (you don't need longer to collect the material for a
review).

I really like the fact that everything in the filesystem becomes part of the
project. I make heavy use of CVS and if a file is no longer needed I delete
it in CVS. No need to explicitly ignore things in the filesystem.

IDE's that force you to add everything manually (like, eg. Visual Studio)
are such a pain in the lower back -- and they force the whole team to use
the same IDE, otherwise some people won't see some of the files.

I think it's great, that there is such a thing as a 'standard project
layout' (and with source folders one can really do a lot of things).

Another counter-example: the Apple ProjectBuilder lets you define Java
classes' package independent of the folders the .java file is in (they copy
the files before compiling). That is really quite flexible, but I can never
seem to find the classes I'm looking for (which is in part due to the
horrible classbrowser, which was state-of-the-art ten years ago ...).

Anyway -- I had not noticed that there is no File|Open ... menu in Eclipse
until I read the post quoted above.

Just my EUR .02 :-)

Harald