Eclipse e4

[jamesdcarroll]

Though I'm actually GWT Designer user/subscriber, I'd be interested in y'all's take on the Eclipse E4 project (http://www.eclipse.org/e4/) and the future of Eclipse development.

Thanks,

James

[Eric Clayberg]

I think it is way to early in the development of E4 to comment much on it.

As of the latest E4 build, all of our products seem to build and run fine, so it has not had any effect on us yet. That may very well change by the time that E4 actually ships.

[krismuc]

how is the situation about 2 1/2 months before the planned release e4?

Thanks
Kris

[Eric Clayberg]

Unknown. The e4 compatibility layer is still very much a work-in-progress so it is unknown how many plugins (Eclipse.org or otherwise) will actually run when e4 comes out. Keep in mind that the first "release" of e4 is basically a glorified alpha with a "provisional" API. The "real" Eclipse release will be v3.6 which we already support. We are not going to commit to e4 support yet until it gets closer to delivery. Before we can support e4, e4 itself will need to support the Eclipse JDT and PDT.