Too many little consoles.. :-) Which is the main item which has put me off.
Written in Java and needing to know Java to do a lot of extending of Eclipse[though with PDT going to a markup language for rules, I might be able to do quite a bit there] Oddities with network connections: I went through half a dozen install processes, and each one broke irrepairably at some point. Too many versions: which one to use? PHP code folding inadequacies: just doesn't fold everything the other IDE's I've used can. Source Class browsing failures: I've yet to see a function like Ultraedit where an entire project of files is kept up to date for the class/function browsers. OTOH you can emulate all this functionality if you document your code as it will pick up documentation in standard formats. So here the "downside" is a matter of getting really good at commenting code that should be commented anyway! My setup: I ended up with the all in one PDT installer. Then I added in the Bzr plugins for source code repositories. Then I REMOVED Mylin and installed the latest version of Mylin.... Then I installed the Mylin/Eclipse Redmine plugin[and installed the server side 2.6 plugin on my server]. Finally, the one item that caused weird problems when I installed originally, I loaded the RSE plugins[Remote Server Environment]. Note: the local one caused me to be unable to open local PHP files, so the 3rd time around I specifically excluded that one. I added my Redmine server to the task servers[small nit here: under the current setup, I cannot get a list of /all/ issues. I have to add project by project, and sub project by sub project. Gotta find out why and fix that] Now, outside the "project" concept as I was debugging code that was offsite, then for the Remote Servers I added my FTP and SFTP servers and was able to browse those repositories online and open the files directly. [Note: small nit here, a LOT of the tools I wanted are kind of hidden. I had to keep going to Window->ShowView->Other to get a long list of windows to find a lot of these things. Ok, so with all this setup, I had 3 features to change. So I opened the first task in my project in eclipse, checked the spec, hit activate, and then hunted around for the files on the server. Finally found the oddball layout and located the 2 PHP files that needed minor changes to. Updated and tested them. Then when I was done, I went back to the task and used the feature I am now in love with: there will be a tab to "Add Context"..... click on that and you have a list of all open files[or is it files you have opened?].. Clicked save and I believe it generates an XML file of all the file paths/files and zips them up, then it gets attached to the issue. Next I close the issue. So NEXT time I have to make a small change, I can go back to this issue and open the context from Eclipse and it will automatically open the files from the FTP server for me. Second feature, again changed 2 files. This time I had to dig through a dozen files to find the area to change and had left them open. As an experiment, I went to add context and sure enough, lots of stuff I did not change was there. But I could right click and remove items from the context that were not relevant, and then save them. Soo... that one feature has me sold. It was quick and easy and I will live with all the other little annoyances for now to be able to easily record which files were changed directly into my project management tool AND be able to open them later[it's easy to add changed files by adding an issue keyword to the files and checking into version control - Bazaar can check files for keywords in the commits and files and update the issue id number as needed - but that is one way communication, wheras this two way communication is great!]
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