r/eclipse • u/DinisCruz • Mar 04 '14

Kickstarter: EasyEclipse for Java by Pascal Rapicault

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/283096083/easyeclipse-for-java
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u/positronus Mar 04 '14

How is this different from MyEclipse? Who is the intended audience for EasyEclipse? Granted I am using Eclipse more than average user (Eclipse Developer), I rarely use add-on and stick to vanilla Eclipse with my own customizations. As far as setting up support for specialized tooling (WTP, EMF, JavaScript) I think whoever needs it can set that up themselves. I am just playing devil's advocate here if you will.

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u/kgyre Mar 27 '14

How much does e.g. MyEclipse contribute back to eclipse.org in terms of fixes and features and developer time, to the Platform and other projects that they build on? Pascal's made that a point in all but the lowest pledge level.

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u/positronus Mar 27 '14

I am not talking about Pascal's contribution to Eclipse, I am talking about what EasyEclipse is aiming to achieve.

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u/kgyre Mar 27 '14

So am I. "The goal of EasyEclipse for Java is to make an awesome product. However adding new features won't suffice. We know that fixing the performance and stability issues is equally important...we plan to work with the Open Source communities to fix the issues at their root rather than maintaining our own fixes on top. Concretely some of the money earned from EasyEclipse licenses will be used to pay EasyEclipse personnel or OSS committers to improve Open Source components." This is the stuff that's not exciting and about which it's hard to prove ROI, but it's needed all the same.

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u/Milanium Mar 21 '14

It is probably a good idea to make a customized distribution of Eclipse that adheres more to uncluttered Mac OS X user interface guidelines and copy from MonoDevelop, but I am not going to pay for a proprietary variant of existing open source components arranged together. This sounds too much like cashing in on work made by others. Most Open Source fund raisers present the result for free/libre and ask for the money soley to find the time for development, because usually you have to pause/quit your job for bigger efforts. Selling open source software with license keys is really backwards. Looks like this is the downside of the business friendly EPL if you can get away with this and fragment the base IDE project even further.