Because forking means you are required to drag along the gigantic tail of legacy. I respect Google for having the guts to reboot the whole thing occasionally, it's pragmatic. However I doubt they will be doing their own IDE from scratch, not initially anyway.
On Sep 28, 6:46 am, Miroslav Pokorny <miroslav.poko...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Steven Herod <steven.he...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > So... who wants to speculate on Google starting their own, ground up > > toolchain solution for GWT / Android / etc that is NOT based on > > Eclipse or Netbeans.... > > Why would anyone want to start from scratch when licensing is not a problem > if one wishes to fork ? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.