Brett McCoy wrote: > Wow, yours is even newer than mine.... I am using 3.2.2, the version > that is part of Fedora 7 (not from Eclipse website). >
I highly recommend upgrading to 3.4.1 and grabbing all the latest plugins, whether for Java or C++. My day job is a Java developer using Eclipse to write custom extensions to an application for various customers, although I spend more time on configuration management and technical designs than anything. Anyway, I upgrades from 3.2.2 from 3.4.1 recently and they fixed a whole ton of bugs and performance is even slightly better. At home I use Eclipse for Java and C++ development, and it is far more stable. By stable I do not mean it does not crash, I mean I would get weird errors, extraneous compile errors/warnings, errors would not clear after fixing, cleaning and recompiling, and in general it acted flaky. I have not had any problems in 3.4.1. One of my favorite things about Eclipse is it is self-contained, both in Windows and in Linux. Its dependencies and system footprint are minimal. It should be easy to upgrade in Linux, even considering how easy it is already to use RPMs or any other package management system. -- John Gaughan
