It's been a while since I installed eclipse simply because I hated it and moved away from it. My experience of the litany of download options was the same as Mic's i.e. pissed off after wasting 30 mins waiting on the wrong download to complete.
I think we could engineer multiple options for this and they'd all be wrong for a %age of cases, so arguing one set of %ages over another is just moving the problem somewhere else and seems like a waste of time to me. What's the easiest option to get started on that works for a high %age of people? Lets get something working and then see how we can evolve it to fill gaps. On 1 September 2015 at 21:48, Michael Neale <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/jenkinsci-dev/kRobm-cxFw8/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CANWgJS5UFH3C00BpmbR6fYaZr1f_TSwVX2FE8WhEUhB9PY%2BXbA%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CANWgJS5UFH3C00BpmbR6fYaZr1f_TSwVX2FE8WhEUhB9PY%2BXbA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/jenkinsci-dev/kRobm-cxFw8/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CAKVMTi4u1Z8POdikNK%3DFrOTQbL8aveiZ02YEZ-2sFwrjdmCiKw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CAKVMTi4u1Z8POdikNK%3DFrOTQbL8aveiZ02YEZ-2sFwrjdmCiKw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CA%2BbPaoL2Em06CkXa2BXT2zh23%3Dr_5G%2Bs5%2BRJ5oMK%3DRvauwub3w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
