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Eclipse Indigo unveiled

40 points by gulbrandr 15y ago

cleverjake 15y ago
"The official release date for Eclipse Indigo is 22 June, 2011. If you are reading this before then, the downloads will still be the preview versions. While they will be largely functional, you'll have to wait to get your hands on the real thing."
andrewcooke 15y ago
does this have an easy way to customize colour schemes? i'm currently battling with intellij idea just because eclipse is unreadable in my "dark background" kde setup (idea used to be pretty good, so maybe i'm just unlucky, but i'm using their python plugin and it won't even run my tests; the fix missed the last release and now seems to be two minor releases out...)
- sbarre 15y ago
  You can try this: http://www.eclipsecolorthemes.org/ http://www.eclipsecolorthemes.org/
  - beck5 15y ago
    The themes you can get for eclipse now were an actual factor in my decision to not move to InteliJ
- andrewcooke 15y ago
  for the record this is still a release candidate and it crashes when adding a pydev project.
yellowbkpk 15y ago
I'm dismayed to see that they're calling EGit 1.0 ... there are plenty of bugs that haven't even been looked at that I would call showstoppers. For example, auto-crlf settings are not properly handled (which is a big deal when on a cross-platform team). Actually, the whole config-reading system is just plain broken and has not been improved in several iterations.
- BonoboBoner 15y ago
  When the last tickets for the latest eclipse "release train" are given out, even showstopper bugs are forced to wait until 3.x.1 ;)
- ilcavero 15y ago
  sadly that's standard IBM procedure, I wonder what their OpenUP process says about it.
JulianMorrison 15y ago
New features: slow as hell, random fade-outs and GC thrashing in less than 4Gb RAM, sometimes crashes dead with no warning, no automatic/incremental saving of configuration state or work-in-progress files, intrusive "tasks" UI you don't need or want, knows perfectly well a file has changed but won't refresh it on your behalf. No wait, those are old features.
- firemanx 15y ago
  Actually, I think one of the new features addresses the file refreshing issue. I don't know for sure yet (in the process of upgrading right now), but its mentioned in one of the New and Notable articles.

40 points by gulbrandr 15y ago

"The official release date for Eclipse Indigo is 22 June, 2011. If you are reading this before then, the downloads will still be the preview versions. While they will be largely functional, you'll have to wait to get your hands on the real thing."

andrewcooke 15y ago

does this have an easy way to customize colour schemes? i'm currently battling with intellij idea just because eclipse is unreadable in my "dark background" kde setup (idea used to be pretty good, so maybe i'm just unlucky, but i'm using their python plugin and it won't even run my tests; the fix missed the last release and now seems to be two minor releases out...)

sbarre 15y ago
You can try this: http://www.eclipsecolorthemes.org/ http://www.eclipsecolorthemes.org/
- beck5 15y ago
  The themes you can get for eclipse now were an actual factor in my decision to not move to InteliJ
andrewcooke 15y ago
for the record this is still a release candidate and it crashes when adding a pydev project.

yellowbkpk 15y ago

I'm dismayed to see that they're calling EGit 1.0 ... there are plenty of bugs that haven't even been looked at that I would call showstoppers. For example, auto-crlf settings are not properly handled (which is a big deal when on a cross-platform team). Actually, the whole config-reading system is just plain broken and has not been improved in several iterations.

BonoboBoner 15y ago
When the last tickets for the latest eclipse "release train" are given out, even showstopper bugs are forced to wait until 3.x.1 ;)
ilcavero 15y ago
sadly that's standard IBM procedure, I wonder what their OpenUP process says about it.

JulianMorrison 15y ago

New features: slow as hell, random fade-outs and GC thrashing in less than 4Gb RAM, sometimes crashes dead with no warning, no automatic/incremental saving of configuration state or work-in-progress files, intrusive "tasks" UI you don't need or want, knows perfectly well a file has changed but won't refresh it on your behalf. No wait, those are old features.

firemanx 15y ago
Actually, I think one of the new features addresses the file refreshing issue. I don't know for sure yet (in the process of upgrading right now), but its mentioned in one of the New and Notable articles.