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Eclipse Luna to be released June 25

• shock 12y ago
  What is the Offset column in the list of participating projects? It's not clear at all from the release page -- I thought it meant that they would be released later by _offset_ amount of time (weeks, months) relative to Eclipse release, but it doesn't seem to be the case as checking a couple of them I saw that they will be released on the same day as Luna.
  • pekim 12y ago
    It's the number of days later than the core Eclipse project that the project is expected to integrate with a milestone or release candidate. It seems to relate to a project's need for some time to test against their dependent projects. I found this information at http://wiki.eclipse.org/SimRel/Overview http://wiki.eclipse.org/SimRel/Overview .
    • shock 12y ago
      Thanks! That makes sense. It would have been great if this information would have been on the release page in some form or another (tooltip, footnote, etc).
• mmastrac 12y ago
  Eclipse has been getting a lot of flak lately, but it's still my editor of choice. I've tried to make the switch to IntelliJ, but the Eclipse classloader and dynamic class re-loading is just too good for me to give up. I also find that Eclipse feels a lot more native on OSX than IntelliJ does, and it has a much saner project structure (IMHO, of course). I think the project gets a bad rap because the extensive plugin ecosystem includes a lot of low-quality stuff that spins CPU cycles and absolutely kills your environment. This includes some of the crap like the old Android development plugins and Spring Suite that both felt like such a huge hack layered on top of Eclipse. If you stick with the base Eclipse and just do straight Java/Maven (ie: avoid web tools, Tomcat, etc), it's a slick environment that's really productive for me.