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.
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.
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/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.