BTW, I love the Posse. I have listened for years and will continue to for a long while to come. This is not intended as a slight against them, just my personal opinion on one area of their coverage.
On Jul 24, 8:15 am, Lhasadad <[email protected]> wrote: > Neil, > > The reality is the Posse has a thing about Eclipse. I ignore it, > but its there. the discussion on NetBeans when the latest > version came out was timely and all positive. The Eclipse > coverage was delayed (probably because its not their thing > and it took a little time to get the news and prepare for discussing. > The actual discussion was about 3 minutes of whats new and > the next 10 minutes kibitzing on the history or the Eclipse v > Netbeans and Swing v SWT debate. > > Bill > > On Jul 23, 5:24 am, Neil Bartlett <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have just listened to Dick's actual comments in the podcast... oh > > dear. > > > Now we all know that when Dick doesn't know about something, he > > speculates. Fair enough. But the process of naming Eclipse 3.6 took > > place entirely in the open, so if anybody is interested in how it > > really acquired the name, the full discussion is attached to this > > Bugzilla entry: > > > http://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=271054 > > > As you can see, the primary motivation was to find a word beginning > > with H, and one of the other leading candidates was Hyperion. The same > > process was used to choose the name for 3.7, and as a result the next > > release will be named Indigo: > > > http://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=306864 > > > I hope that Indigo won't be perceived as some kind of slight against > > Oracle... ;-) > > > Regards > > Neil > > > On Jul 23, 8:22 am, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 7/23/10 09:01 , Wildam Martin wrote:> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 08:53, > > > Neil Bartlett <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Actually the competition that IBM wanted to eclipse was -- and still > > > >> is -- Visual Studio. > > > > > And this is the most important competition - Sometimes when I see > > > > people using different Linux distributions arguing against each other > > > > or developers using different languages arguing against each other, I > > > > think: Is there really room for that kind of fight? > > > > That's why Linux expansion has got an upper limit... Competition is > > > good, goal-less fight is bad. > > > > - -- > > > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > > > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > > > java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici -www.tidalwave.it/people > > > [email protected] > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) > > > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > > > iEYEARECAAYFAkxJQzgACgkQeDweFqgUGxfrAgCfaf46px2CpgUNvAUoIbYo6ZZ1 > > > hW4AnRxxI/rPVuC8jPxCkSdFncp8J86X > > > =L3Bg > > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
