| Re: [m2e-users] Long term outlook for 'M2E plugin execution notcovered' |
I get the feeling that the two sides of this discussion are not hearing each other. However good the reasons, to the end user it looks as though the m2e team have been working like bees to remove features that we all depend on, and the result (today) looks significantly less useful than previous versions. For my part, I'm still on v3.5+0.9.something and trying out NetBeans, feeling that I'm strongly warned off of the current Eclipse and m2e as the combination is not yet ready for the way I want to use it. If I understand the other side of the discussion, the m2e team have been taking out things that could not be properly done in m2e itself and were unmaintainable, and instead providing more support for other teams to do a proper job with those functions. So things do get worse for a while as a necessary step to them getting better than before. For the discussion to progress, we need to hear from the third parties who are now encouraged to pick up those features and reimplement them. I'm left wondering if any of those parties have been informed that the problem has been "tossed over the wall" to them. If in the end Eclipse+m2e becomes less mysterious, frustrating, and unstable than in the past, then it will have been worth some disruption and I suppose I'll be using the latest and greatest at some point. For now I'm waiting to see what happens. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mwood@xxxxxxxxx Asking whether markets are efficient is like asking whether people are smart.
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