Hi, I agree with your opinion. I think it is currently just the case because the most of the developers use eclipse. But for the future we should switch to "maven" and tooling (Checkstyle/PMD) which can be used with "maven".
Kind regards, Michael PS: I also use Netbeans if possible ;o) On 02.08.13 12:19, "Francesco Chicchiriccò" <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi all, >do you think that the strong dependency on Eclipse claimed on the >project's homepage could be relaxed a bit? The text says: > >> The project build with Maven. To consume sources execute >> >> mvn eclipse:clean eclipse:eclipse >> >> and import generated projects into Eclipse. The project has a strict >> coding convention and Eclipse templates are available here: Eclipse >> Code Convention Templates. Best practice is to import these templates >> to Eclipse workspace and do a "Code CleanUp" before each commit. > >For example, since I am on Netbeans I don't need any preliminary command >in order to work with Olingo sources and Maven. > >About code convention, would it be possible do refer to some general >rules that can be enforced via Checkstyle (for example)? > >WDYT? > >-- >Francesco Chicchiriccò > >ASF Member, Apache Syncope PMC chair, Apache Cocoon PMC Member >http://people.apache.org/~ilgrosso/ >
