In my opinion, event if they can be inspired by ASDT ( but I think they
don't need it ...) all stuff they done and that aren't in ASDT show good
that they know good eclipse and plugins development ...
Not heaving seen any confirmation that they really used ASDT as the starting
point, I would think they mostly tried to copy the features found in JDT - much
like ASDT is doing. I guess that for most of this stuff there just isn't that
much room to implement it in fundamentally different ways, so any similarities
don't need to be caused by a shared codebase.
These are the kind of viewpoints that turn me off about the OS movement. I
think OS is great, but
1. there is too often this viewpoint that it will save the world (I think
you may have been half joking in that statement, but the sentiment is often
there)
And
2. there is too often the viewpoint that if someone is doing something
non-open source, they are somehow "letting everyone down". This even extends
to people who use non-open source products. I got so much flak just for
saying I felt more comfortable in the PrimalScript environment than the
Eclipse environment.
Keith, I think you're totally right in that many people in the Free Software
world behave like religious zealots. I watched you getting flamed about
something that should absolutely be in the realm of your personal freedom -
namely the decision to like some program better than another one. I mean: how
silly can it get? (I'm pretty fond of PrimalScript myself, btw.)
At first, I was a little surprised about such an obvious clone of ASDT, but
then I realized that
a) as stated above, much of the similarity develops kinda necessarily
b) they started out with a very clean approach that's much more similar to what
one would expect in Eclipse - which is something the ASDT project is sorting
out right now, as can be seen by the recent developments on CVS.
c) right now, FDT is, simply put, way slicker than ASDT.
Anyway, as I said before, I think FDT is healthy competition and I'm looking
forward to the two projects pushing each other to unknown heights!
cheers,
till
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