I agree, I always dreaded going to eclipse.org and worrying I have just
downloaded 300Meg of the wrong thing.

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 1:30 PM Baptiste Mathus <[email protected]> wrote:

> 2015-09-01 20:08 GMT+02:00 Jesse Glick <[email protected]>:
>
>> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 12:30 PM, James Nord <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Eclipse.org
>> > provides "distributions"  you can get the basic IDE and add the plugins
>> you
>> > want - or you can get the Java version, or the J2EE version, or the PHP
>> > version...
>>
>
> Well, actually Eclipse is somehow backing away a bit from that model. I
> think that indeed prepackaged versions leads to big complexity and user
> frustration since not a lot of people will actually find the exact things
> you need.
>
> And technically: downloading + installing additional things may not be
> as-well tested and multiply combinatorials. Hence writing a /wizard/
> (called oomph in Eclipse [1]) that works is currently a ongoing work (and
> is already working but still needs battle testing I guess).
>
> [1] https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/installer.php
> -- Baptiste
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