http://www.codedread.com/blog/archives/2005/07/18/subverting-your-life-an-update/ Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:56:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.codedread.com/blog/archives/2005/07/18/subverting-your-life-an-update/comment-page-1/#comment-210 or maybe something uplifting… » Subversion with Eclipse: Subclipse Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:31:16 +0000 /?p=123#comment-210 [...] So tinkering a bit with a new project in Eclipse recently, I noticed that there’s CVS support built in. I like Subversion and have a couple projects stored in Jeff’s subversion repository. I love the almost seemless integration of the Tortoise SVN client into Windows Explorer. So seeing the CVS support in Eclipse got me wondering about SVN support. Sure enough, the good people at Tigris.org have an Eclipse plugin called Subclipse. The installation instructions are very clear, but demostrate what I don’t like about Eclipse. This is standard practice for installing a plugin for that framework, I’m sure, but it’s vastly different than plugins for more familiar software projects. I’m sure the steep learning curve keeps a lot of otherwise enthusiastic developers out. Subclipse developers shouldn’t have to include that many screenshots to do something as run-of-the-mill as adding a plugin. Without those screenshots I would have probably given up though. Eclipse could learn something from the XPI installation method that Firefox uses. [...] [...] So tinkering a bit with a new project in Eclipse recently, I noticed that there’s CVS support built in. I like Subversion and have a couple projects stored in Jeff’s subversion repository. I love the almost seemless integration of the Tortoise SVN client into Windows Explorer. So seeing the CVS support in Eclipse got me wondering about SVN support. Sure enough, the good people at Tigris.org have an Eclipse plugin called Subclipse. The installation instructions are very clear, but demostrate what I don’t like about Eclipse. This is standard practice for installing a plugin for that framework, I’m sure, but it’s vastly different than plugins for more familiar software projects. I’m sure the steep learning curve keeps a lot of otherwise enthusiastic developers out. Subclipse developers shouldn’t have to include that many screenshots to do something as run-of-the-mill as adding a plugin. Without those screenshots I would have probably given up though. Eclipse could learn something from the XPI installation method that Firefox uses. [...]

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