Goodbye **early access** for Mac cocoa
The SWT team has been working really hard to complete the Mac cocoa port for Eclipse 3.5. As is typical with these things, about 95% of the code works but it's the last 5% that makes all the difference. What's in the 5%? The usual crashes, performance problems and stupid bugs that make things look bad, when in fact they are pretty good.
Here are some bugs that have been fixed recently for Eclipse 3.5 M5 (253227, 260929, 261854 and my personal favourite 251021). Some didn't make it because there wasn't enough time to get to them (260592) but we'll be looking into them and more for M6.
Special thanks go to the committers Kevin Barnes, Grant Gayed, Scott Kovatch, Silenio Quarti and Felipe Heidrich as well as the community for testing and reporting bugs. We aren't done yet. As more people start running the code, we're going to see more problems and more crazy fixes in the code.
Stay tuned!
Steve
Here are some bugs that have been fixed recently for Eclipse 3.5 M5 (253227, 260929, 261854 and my personal favourite 251021). Some didn't make it because there wasn't enough time to get to them (260592) but we'll be looking into them and more for M6.
Special thanks go to the committers Kevin Barnes, Grant Gayed, Scott Kovatch, Silenio Quarti and Felipe Heidrich as well as the community for testing and reporting bugs. We aren't done yet. As more people start running the code, we're going to see more problems and more crazy fixes in the code.
Stay tuned!
Steve
posted by Steve at
11:47 AM
6 Comments:
Congratulations! I've been using M4 Cocoa x86_64 for a while now. While it is *definitely* early-access (performance issues, esp in StyledText, etc), it's still infinitely better than Carbon or worse, nothing at all. Props to everyone on the SWT team for their excellent work on this long-anticipated port.
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Daniel Spiewak, at 1:43 PM
Congrats on the accomplishment.
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Chris Aniszczyk (zx), at 2:54 PM
Go and get 3.5 M5 and run that. Let us know about anything you find.
Steve
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Steve, at 5:54 PM
Wow that's awesome... The Eclipse 3.2 "experience" on OS X was one of the main reasons I moved to Linux. Screenshots?
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Anonymous, at 2:06 PM
Cool.
Now all that's left is for eclipse to have a decent FSEvents based filesystem watcher, and it might actually become a _usable_ IDE on the mac.
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Anonymous, at 3:27 AM
You got code?
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Steve, at 9:03 AM
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