I know you’ve been working with / testing Servoy 5 Marcel. Is that now a Plugin for Eclipse, or is it still a hybrid Serclipse set-up. Can you now add other Eclipse plugins to the IDE without causing havoc in the Servoy editor? There are a number of spell check plugins available - but I wouldn’t want to break Servoy again .
Are you using 5 for production development yet Marcel - or still sand boxing it?
Kahuna: @Marcel - thanks for that feedback.
I know you’ve been working with / testing Servoy 5 Marcel. Is that now a Plugin for Eclipse, or is it still a hybrid Serclipse set-up.
I have certainly not yet seen it as a plugin and, as far as I know there is no plugin yet.
Kahuna:
Can you now add other Eclipse plugins to the IDE without causing havoc in the Servoy editor? There are a number of spell check plugins available - but I wouldn’t want to break Servoy again .
I don’t think it will make much difference when Servoy is distributed as a plugin. Basically it is already a plugin. The only issue we will always bump into is the fact that the plugins you want to use will work with/support the editor, language etc that you want to work with. That is also the case with all other languages like Java.
Kahuna:
Are you using 5 for production development yet Marcel - or still sand boxing it?
Appreciate hearing your experiences with it.
Sandboxing, simply because I did not yet have the time to put Servoy 5 to an extensive test yet.
Kahuna:
I know you’ve been working with / testing Servoy 5 Marcel. Is that now a Plugin for Eclipse, or is it still a hybrid Serclipse set-up. Can you now add other Eclipse plugins to the IDE without causing havoc in the Servoy editor? There are a number of spell check plugins available - but I wouldn’t want to break Servoy again .
So far I have not seen plugins causing havoc on Servoy. Eclipse updates however I have seen do damage though, so be careful with that.
Also a new rule, don’t rename your application file!!. Pre Eclipse 3.5 (Servoy 5 uses it) we already knew we shouldn’t rename the directory once we installed Servoy in it but at least you could change the executable name without problems, now however it will kill your configuration. It will launch fine the first time but on a relaunch it’s effectively dead. So much in the config files are (wrongly) changed that a reinstall is easier than to fix it.
And yes, it’s an Eclipse thing. Not Servoy.
Kahuna:
Are you using 5 for production development yet Marcel - or still sand boxing it?
I’ve been testing 5 since the first beta and since beta 4 I have been moving projects over to 5 and been actively developing in it.
I am not running anything in production yet, just developing with the new features and I must say I love this release.
It’s such a step forward on so many levels.
It will launch fine the first time but on a relaunch it’s effectively dead. So much in the config files are (wrongly) changed that a reinstall is easier than to fix it.
That one is indeed a bitch!
Makes my nice setup with different names for different instances of Servoy less intuitive once they are running