Eclipse Portable 3.5.1 Development Test 3
- IT IS RECOMMENDED TO USE THE REGULAR ECLIPSE UPDATE MANAGER!!! USING THE INSTALLER TO UPDATE WILL RESULT IN APP DIR RESET. THIS MEANS IF YOU INSTALLED PHP, C++, OR Java SUPPORT WITH ECLIPSE, THEN IT'LL BE GONE. At the current moment (9-26-09)
- RunLocally was ditched. There's no reason in it, it breaks the functionality of using 2 Eclipse instances at once, and THE APP DIR IS LIKE ALMOST 200MB!!! Who would want to do that? Using it would kill your drive
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- TO CLEAR UP ANOTHER BIGGER CONFUSION (INSTALLING JAVA PORTABLE)
Eclipse relies on Java. I found that a lot of users were having trouble installing java. So let me explain how I've made the launcher look for java. First, it looks in for the Java path specified in the .ini file (when it's copied to the same directory as Eclipse Portable). If that path does not contain Java, or the ini file was never found, "[X]:\PortableApps\CommonFiles\Java" is searched next. This allows integration to Java Portable, which can be downloaded from the Applications tab on this web site (at the top). Just install it to the default path. If that wasn't found in the above path, the second place it looks is in the path OpenOffice.org also uses. "[X]:\PortableApps\EclipsePortable\App\Java". Then the third and final, is the one the regular eclipse might use for specific eclipse development reasons (for example, JRE is installed on the system, but the user wants eclipse to use JDK). One user has requested that JDK would be better for Eclipse Portable use. This would be the answer, to place JDK in App\Java and change the .ini path to direct to it. And, as a last resort, Eclipse Portable uses the local Java if Java wasn't found in all the above paths plus the ini specified one. - NOTE: The above applies as of Development Test 3
TO CLEAR UP THE CONFUSION...
Eclipse has many bundles for different developers. Classic would be regular or just the normal edition. For now, if you want your Classic/Normal edition to have support for other programming languages, see below.For C++ Developers... paste this URL
http://download.eclipse.org/tools/cdt/releases/galileo
in Help --> Install New Software... --> Type or Select a Site. Then just check all the packages... install, restart... and you have C++ support added to Eclipse.For PHP Developers... paste this URL
http://download.eclipse.org/tools/pdt/updates/
in Help --> Install New Software... --> Type or Select a Site. Then just check all the packages... install, restart... and you have PHP support added to Eclipse.
- total_score = w1 * user_value + w2 * architectural_risk + w3*code_quality + w4*easy_to_implement + w5*personal_fun_factor.
w1-w5 are weights which represent my view of the relative importance of a parameter;
user_value - is the user demand score I get from the polls here;
architectural_risk - features that involve risk of substantial code rewriting/restructuring are better done early;
code_quality - tasks that involve improving code quality and paying back the "design debt" deserve prioritization;
easy_to_implement - if the feature only takes an hour to implement, why not do it right now?;
personal_fun_factor - as I said, personal motivation factor should not be underestimated.
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