Eclipse Indigo is here

http://www.eclipse.org/indigo/

by Garbage • 15 years ago

70 38 15 years ago

wccrawford• 15 years ago

Does anyone know if it'll work with Android's stuff, or if we need to wait for Google to release an update?

tom9729• 15 years ago

I'm new to Android development but I've been using Indigo for about a week and haven't run into any issues aside from the emulator being SLOW (admittedly not the fault of Eclipse :-).

Might as well give it a try, it's easy enough to revert back to a previous version if necessary..

ryanhuff• 15 years ago

If you have an Android device, its much easier to use the device instead of the simulator. Just connect your phone to your computer via usb and enable debugging on the phone. You can still trace through your code in Eclipse as if you were running through the simulator.

shareme2• 15 years ago

you should not have to..

also CDT-ADT integration was moved from Eclipse Sequoyah to Eclipse CDT

adelevie2• 15 years ago

I'm new to Eclipse as I just started learning Android development a few weeks ago. Is there anything in Indigo that improves Android development? From http://www.eclipse.org/indigo/, the only thing that struck me was EGit.

beck52• 15 years ago

Be careful with EGit its still beta really IMO.

adelevie2• 15 years ago

Better to just stick with command line + git gui?

ecaron• 15 years ago

Agreed, EGit is not ready for public consumption. Sticking with Tortoise or command line is the only way to make sure you don't end up doing serious damage to your repos.

Their biggest problem is their treatment of previous changes and parents. It fubars the system by repeatedly introduce previous additions or deletions from your codebase.

guelo2• 15 years ago

Been using EGit since it came out without a problem. It's hard for me to live without the in-IDE historical diffs.

terrapinbear• 15 years ago

You might give Motodev from Motorola a try. It's basically a Motorola modified Eclipse for smartphone development. I like the snippets window and the project wizards. Free too.

rushabh• 15 years ago

Yawn

rch• 15 years ago

There is so much about Eclipse that I don't like, but there are still some interesting and useful tools that keep me on-board.

ATL and Xtext have a lot of potential, for instance. Not to mention externally developed projects like Bioclipse and Knime.

It is probably time for a serious fork to illustrate how nice the core platform could be.

calebmpeterson• 15 years ago

My day job is writing Eclipse RCP based thick clients. The platform is very nice indeed!

JVM (Java in my case :/) + native widgets (fast) + built in update mechanism + robust module system (OSGi)

Love or hate Eclipse the IDE, Eclipse the Rich Client Platform is really solid framework for thick clients.

chuchurocka2• 15 years ago

this better be better than the upgrade to Helios.

run4yourlives2• 15 years ago

Wow, that design looks very, very close to the old Indigo books (they bought Chapter's in Canada) logo. Same colours, font, even the use of the exclamation point.

I wonder if there was any influence or if it is just coincidence. Unfortunately, a bookstore was the first thing I thought of.

mrcharles• 15 years ago

Link: http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/home/

Only a small logo on top right but this was my first thought as well. Not quite the same font but same proportions.

run4yourlives2• 15 years ago

Do a google image search for indigo books and you get some better results.

numbsafari• 15 years ago

Yeah. I'm sticking with vim.

mikemaccana• 15 years ago

What's the UI latency like?

On OS X, Windows and Linux, with every version of Eclipse I've ever tried, I can measure the response time between right clicking on a project and a context menu appearing.

grhino• 15 years ago

It does a lot of initialization while populating the context menu for the first time. It really gives the wrong first impression on UI latency.

chuchurocka2• 15 years ago

I've been using it since this morning, and for once it actually seems snappy. I never thought I'd say that about eclipse.

starwed2• 15 years ago

Weird, with Helios, I see no lag at all for me an a MacBook Air.

Not that I'm saying Eclipse has a super-responsive UI. :)

dekz• 15 years ago

MacBook Air with an SSD?

cot6mur3• 15 years ago

Sadly, Eclipse Indigo is only downloadable by 'Friends of Eclipse' at present.

hkolk• 15 years ago

I just started my download of OS-X. Either it is an old message, or the packages distributed faster then expected (see the note under that page)

mrspandex• 15 years ago

Perhaps Eclipse developers should take this opportunity to try IntelliJ if you haven't. I switched 2 years ago and I can never go back.

http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/

lylejohnson• 15 years ago

I never could understand why people paid for IntelliJ licenses when Eclipse was available for free; and then I finally tried IntelliJ on my last project. Long story short, I'm now an IntelliJ user. The strong Maven support was a strong selling point, but really it's that strong built-in support you get for all of the libraries, frameworks and tools in the Java ecosystem.

guelo2• 15 years ago

What's New info on the web for this release seems to be extremely well hidden. You can find it in the web based Help:

Workbench: http://help.eclipse.org/indigo/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclips...

JDT: http://help.eclipse.org/indigo/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclips...

EGit: http://help.eclipse.org/indigo/topic/org.eclipse.egit.doc/he...

alatkins• 15 years ago

There's also the press release: http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20110622indigo.php

Eclipse Indigo is here

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