[Pluginbuilder-development] Pluginbuilder experiences

[Tom Wickham-J. <tw...@wo...>]

Hi


We build a collection of eclipse plugins to add
development support for Mathematica.  We also
ship an RCP version of this, one that is very
close to eclipse.


eclipse is a great platform, but I have
always found its build system/tools to be
complicated, confusing, and hard to work with.
This is in enormous contrast to just about
everything else in eclipse.


Last year we switched to use pluginbuilder
to create the build system for our plugins,
and it works very nicely. It helps enormously,
for example it is good at preventing organic
drift of build files.  We have our own build
system that kicks of nightly builds and handles
configuration management tracking etc...


We have not managed to use pluginbuilder for an
RCP build (based on the p2 system for eclipse 3.4).
Would this be a good list to send questions to?


 From what I can see of Buckminster,  I don't
think it would be useful for us.


Anyway,  pluginbuilder is great!


Tom Wickham-Jones