> My personal hope is that Adobe will develop an Eclipse based solution so > that we as a community can leverage the existing tools that exist for the > platform and do not need to rely on Adobe to provide every tool that we can > dream up. Mark has done an amazing job with CFE, but at the end of the day, > he is still just one man. With the weight (and money) of Adobe behind an > Eclipse based tool, we would all be very much better off IMHO. > > > Rich Kroll
I agree with you, Rich. We are much better off having a community of developers working towards providing features that are needed as plug-ins to suit the various developer's styles. Adobe, in a self-contained product, would have a very difficult time, if not impossible, creating an IDE that could be all-things to all-people. At the end of the day, Adobe, is only going to produce what is going to make money, not what is necessarily best for the community. On the other hand, developers tend to develop what is best for the community, certainly without concern for monetary gain from the product, as is witnessed by the extensive amount of work Mark has put into CFEclipse. A base program, such as CFEclipse with developer created plug-ins is the way to go. If there a problem with a developer maintained environment, the problems tend to get solved very quickly. If there's a problem or feature lacking in a program maintained and enhanced only by a company, then the problem or feature may not be addressed for a year or more, or at least until the next "major release" comes out. (Translated "We'll solve that problem or add that feature, but we're going to make sure you pay for it...) Rick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:296141 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
