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What would you consider good Eclipse support?

As part of my job, I'm employed to install and support development tools for the developers in the company.

Eclipse is an IDE that a great deal of developers here use, but I don't actively support. With the huge range of plugins and quick release of new versions - I find it hard to keep on top of and would not be able (obviously) to support everything.

I do have some experience in Eclipse, but as a developer - what would you consider good support from your workplace in terms of Eclipse?

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Spedge Avatar asked Jan 12 '09 11:01

Spedge


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A teamwide install, with a standard set of plugins.

Allow users to install new ones, and suggest new ones to be put into the standard install, but they should be aware that these are not supported.

Your lead developers will also have some idea about what configuration of these plugins will be helpful to be teamwide - e.g.

  • SVN settings,
  • Mylyn integration
  • code styles
  • checkstyle settings
  • find bugs settings

Both install and plugins can be preprepared and distributed as a big zip file, or a more flexible approach would be to run your own update site internally.

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jamesh Avatar answered Sep 20 '22 22:09

jamesh