> Intersting, I've never had problems getting them to work, but I do > recall tinkering from time to time which I am sure is the problem. > > The CFEclipse project, and I know you are refering to Eclipse in > general, wasn't started to make a full on IDE, but to add CFML Support > to Eclipse.
Understood, and I personally think CFEclipse is great at what it does. That said, I switch tasks constantly all day so I really need an all purpose text editor more than an IDE. Eclipse (with various sundry plug-ins) is about 85% of the way there for me. Believe it or not, one of my favorite features of HomeSite is the dual file explorer because it allows me to switch to a different task without losing my place in the file system. I just wish HomeSite would let me create n number of file manager instances. > He3 was going to / is making a CFML IDE, but pehaps I'll > bundle some up. Mark Drew and I were just talking about it, but I > don't think it would be wise to burnded the CFEclipse project with > bundling an IDE on top of everything else. I agree. I was just trying to give a little perspective from someone who really wants to use Eclipse/CFEclipse for daily chores but can't quite make the switch -- yet. > Interesting... do you have a blog somewhere or can you post what > troubles you have had either to the cfeclipse mailing list or me > directly? I'd like to try to limit the issuse people are having with > Eclipse in general as much as I can so people dont get too much of a > bad taste :) That's greatly appreciated. I actually gave Eclipse a shot before CFEclipse existed but didn't make it nearly as far as I did once you guys started work on CFEclipse. Your work is greatly appreciated. > I'll try to build a quick informal bare bones eclipse .dmg with the > following support: > CFML, JS, CSS, Basic XML (cant use xmlbuddy its commerical). I'll list > the steps if you don't yet have a Mac ;) if you think that'll help. Don't go out of your way. I actually just started a new instance of Eclipse (because of this conversation). I downloaded the non-SDK version this time. I program very little Java, and it seem like the non-SDK version takes up much less RAM and runs faster (two other issues I have with Eclipse). I'll report back issues as I run into them. > Open source guys are not marketing guys, so often the versions do not > reflect the maturity of the project. Hell Apache was a 1.3 just a bit > ago now they are at 2. Its often the marketing people who want to jack > the version up to give a false sense of maturity I agree in general, but I think that it really depends on the plug-in. The ones I mention seem to run the gamut. > Well cfeclipse is comming up on its 1 year birthday, and it can be use > daily for sure there are a lot of people doing just that. I didn't mean to suggest otherwise. In fact, I think CFEclipse goes a long way towards making Eclipse usable for me. > I think the > main hangup is getting it all setup correctly, which again, is not a > cfeclipse duity - but the cfeclipse mailing list and the side projects > that may be coming up might fix a lot of that I agree, and I'm looking forward to it. > Thanks for trying it out Ben, if you give it another go, join the > cfeclipse mailing list and we'll try to get you going. Will do. I'm already subscribed to many mailing lists. I get roughly 1000 (legitimate) messages a day. So, I try to be careful about which lists I join. As long as general (though related) Eclipse questions are tolerated, I think the cfeclipse list would be a good one to join. Thanks. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:188158 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
