I'd agree. Given everything that Eclipse offers, like SVN integration, Trac integration, ANT integration, and editors for everything under the sun, I think it would be completely insane for them to use anything else to build a CF IDE.
On Jan 8, 2008 11:49 AM, Rick Faircloth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I agree with you, Rich. We are much better off having a community of > developers > working towards providing features that are needed as plug-ins to suit the > various > developer's styles. > > Adobe, in a self-contained product, would have a very difficult time, if > not impossible, > creating an IDE that could be all-things to all-people. At the end of the > day, Adobe, > is only going to produce what is going to make money, not what is > necessarily best for > the community. On the other hand, developers tend to develop what is best > for the community, > certainly without concern for monetary gain from the product, as is > witnessed by the > extensive amount of work Mark has put into CFEclipse. > > A base program, such as CFEclipse with developer created plug-ins is the > way to go. > If there a problem with a developer maintained environment, the problems > tend to get > solved very quickly. If there's a problem or feature lacking in a program > maintained > and enhanced only by a company, then the problem or feature may not be > addressed for > a year or more, or at least until the next "major release" comes out. > (Translated "We'll > solve that problem or add that feature, but we're going to make sure you > pay for it...) > > Rick > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:296147 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
