On Wednesday 24 August 2005 11:55, Mike Milinkovich wrote: > All of us at Eclipse recognize that there are many people who prefer to > not use IDEs. The point of Jeff's post was not to encourage anyone to > move to GUI-based tools who don't want them.
Yes. I am very happy with Jeff's and your response. > As external observers, it seems that a sensible alternative to > writing YAPI (yet another plug in) may be to evaluate the PDE to see if > can address your requirements. Ok, I agree on that. > It seems quite possible the Felix team may draw a distinction between the > tools that you want to use within the team for Felix development (likely > non-GUI, based on your comments) This is not for me to decide. I am just high-lighting past experiences using IDEs in Apache-style collaboration efforts. > and the tools which you would like to make > available to your consumers (likely GUI, based on the "Oscar's Studio" > thread) to help encourage adoption. Yes, good tools of both kinds are essential to adoption. Considering the diversity in this community, I am sure we will get there in due time. Cheers Niclas
