Yes, I was wondering why it was discontinued...
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 5:11 AM, Mike Milinkovich < [email protected]> wrote: > > As a historical note, once upon a time, there was a very successful PHP > package on the download page. It would be great to see one again. > > Mike Milinkovich > [email protected] > +1.613.220.3223 > *From: *Jacek Pospychała > *Sent: *Wednesday, May 15, 2013 11:08 AM > *To: *PDT Developers > *Reply To: *PDT Developers > *Subject: *[pdt-dev] Fwd: Providing an All-In-One PDT Eclipse distribution > > meh... I accidentally only sent to pdt-eg mailing list. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Jacek Pospychała <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:07 AM > Subject: Re: Providing an All-In-One PDT Eclipse distribution > To: [email protected] > > > hi Robert, > it's a great initiative and I'd love to see you succeed! > If there's anything specific from PDT side that you're missing please > don't hesitate to bug me about it. I'll do anything I can. > > From Eclipse Foundation side of things, I always wanted to see Eclipse > PHP package listed on http://www.eclipse.org/downloads. IMHO it has > great visibility, downloads rates for some packages are just enormous > (e.g. magnitude higher than top marketplace packages) and it's sad > that there's no package for PHP devs. Now that you're looking into > packaging, have you considered the EPP initiative? It has it's own > constraints, but maybe would be interesting to you. > > Jacek > > > On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Robert Gründler <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > after over 2 years of maintaining PDT related plugins, i've come to the > > following conclusions: > > > > A lot of people have a hard time setting up an eclipse instance to suite > > their needs for PHP development - with the multitude of all the existing > > plugins available. > > More and more people move over to PHPStorm > > > > The migration to PHPStorm imho has 2 main reasons: > > > > Out-Of-The-Box experience: simply download the thing and start working > > Better performance > > > > I think both issues can be addressed by providing a plain Eclipse > > distribution targeting especially the needs of PHP / Web developers. By > > releasing a custom distribution, we can for example provide a tweaked > > eclipse.ini with optimized JVM settings. > > > > Also, a custom distribution could pre-configure other features to improve > > the performance / user experience, for example by disabling useless > > validators etc. > > > > I've therefore started working on a tycho-built eclipse distro based on > the > > following features (so far): > > > > - DLTK 5.0 > > - PDT 3.2 > > - PDT Extensions Core > > - Composer Plugin > > - PHP Tool Integration > > - MakeGood > > - Json Editor > > - Yaml Editor > > > > Another reason why a custom distribution would be an advantage is that we > > don't have to rely on patches being applied to the Eclipse > > runtime, like this one here, which would be a rather great improvement > for > > anyone working with webapplications: > > > > https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=351303 > > > > Here's what the distro could provide on an Eclipse-Runtime Level: > > > > - Register an eclipse:// URL protocol, so Stack-Trace links in the > browser > > could be opened directly in eclipse (like Sublimetext or Textmate work on > > osx) > > - Provide a Listener-Extension for the SWT.OpenDocument event, so plugins > > can import existing projects by drag & drop onto Eclipse > > > > The product i'm working on will be fully open-source and free of charge, > > however i'm also thinking of ways to fund the development of new features > > to PDT Core / PDT-Extensions or any other related plugin. My main ideas > are: > > > > - Go down the crowd-funding route, for example like py-dev has been > doing: > > > http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/pydev-and-liclipse-for-a-fast-sexy-and-dark-eclipse > > - Find sponsors for new features, similar to what travis-ci does: > > https://travis-ci.org/ > > > > > > Any feedback greatly appreciated. > > > > > > > > regards > > > > -robert > > > > > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "PDT Extensions Platform" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to [email protected]. > > To post to this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pdt-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/pdt-dev > > _______________________________________________ > pdt-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/pdt-dev > >
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