Wayne Fay wrote: > > IDEA is a product of a company which charges money for the IDE. Thus > it by definition does not have as many customers as a free product > like Netbeans and Eclipse. > While IDEA may well have less users than NetBeans/Eclipe, it's certainly not "by definition". In fact, there's an argument that as they don't charge, "by definition" they have fewer "customers". [My dictionary's primary definition of customer is "a person who buys".]
There's also the possibility that the developers who do purchase/influence the purchase of IDEA might tend to have more than the average proportion of types who would be interested in knocking up an IDEA plugin in their spare time! Wayne Fay wrote: > > If your paid-for IDE does not support all of your development > requirements, then you might want to look elsewhere. > At which point you find that no IDE will do everything, so return to the best available, which is IDEA for a lot of developers. Competing against some strong free alternatives, it's got to be something special, just to stick around. Wayne Fay wrote: > For these reasons and more, I'm not surprised that the IDEA plugin is > not up to your expectations... > I think the real reason is that the combination of the maven-idea-plugin together with the way "mvn" can be added to the menus/toolbars as an external tool means that it has "good enough" support for most developers... /Gwyn -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Status-on-mavenide-%28maven2%29-IDEA-plugin--t1622062.html#a4426597 Sent from the Maven - Users forum at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
