That is my feeling as well.  We support maven and don't force the IDE on
our users.

Conversely, we shouldn't force IDE's on each other either.  I use IJ due to
historical reasons (10+ years of key bindings in my fingers) and am happy
about the good maven integration that it provides.  The IntelliJ strategy
of making a maven project be just another way of describing a project so
that there isn't any integration.

So I feel like making eclipse play nice with maven as an itch that I don't
have, but clearly others do.  I am happy to go with the flow in terms of
adapting to changes that others make to simplify life, but I don't have the
background or time to make the changes myself.

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Sean Owen <[email protected]> wrote:

> We shouldn't support anything but Maven itself. Its up to the IDEs to
> support Maven then. If IntelliJ does it better then maybe people will favor
> it but that's up to the user. I don't think we should favor any IDE by
> itself.
> On Dec 5, 2011 7:41 PM, "Jeff Eastman" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I will check that out today and report back.
> >
> > The larger issue I see is that, by doing all of our maven development in
> > IntelliJ and not keeping Eclipse working as a viable IDE option, that we
> > are not doing a good job of supporting our customer base. All the shops
> > I've worked in for the last ten years have been Eclipse shops. I echo
> > Benson's concern about the amount of neural energy needed to make the
> > switch, and forcing that switch in order to do Mahout-based development
> > will certainly make us less useful in those organizations which, for
> better
> > or worse, are Eclipse shops too.
> >
> > I don't know yet what issues are preventing me from working in Eclipse
> > Indigo + m2e 1.0 but they are reproducible and I think it is a very high
> > priority to figure them out and resolve them.
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> > On 12/4/11 6:39 PM, Ted Dunning wrote:
> >
> >> Do the eclipse files that I posted on dropbox do any good for eclipse?
> >>
> >> On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Benson Margulies<bimargulies@gmail.
> **com<[email protected]>
> >> >wrote:
> >>
> >>  If you can add intellij helpfulness to the mahout tree, please do.
> >>>
> >>> On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Ted Dunning<[email protected]>
> >>>  wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Can't intelliJ export eclipse projects?  (it has a menu item with that
> >>>> promise)
> >>>>
> >>>> Take a look at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/**36863361/eclipse.tgz<
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/36863361/eclipse.tgz>which is the
> >>>> result me doing that on a modified mahout directory.
> >>>>
> >>>> If that shows promise, I can do it on trunk.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >
>

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