Re: Any plans for WDSCi and/or RDi to use a newer version of Eclipse than the current 3.2?

WDSC and RDI will always be behind the releases of Eclipse - there is not an official relationship that I know of between the 2 development efforts. So one has to just accept that WDSC/RDI will be where they are - it is NOT recommended to try to make them work with a later release of Eclipse.

Eclipse is open-source, WDSC/RDI are not - the latter, being products of a large company like IBM, are not going to move with the dexterity that the OSS community can.

We just have to live with it - I can't see IBM modifying existing product to work with a newer version of Eclipse, ever.

Regards
Vern

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From: Larry Ducie <larry_ducie@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Guys,

I got all excited about Eclipse Ganymede as it includes the MyLyn software and
we could use the JIRA extras for MyLyn. I downloaded Ganymede at home and got
the JIRA extras, configured our JIRA repository to allow remote API calls and
all worked really well.

So, I got to work and thought it would be really good to use the JIRA plug-in
with WDSCi. I hit a problem - WDSCi v7.1.1 uses Eclipse 3.2.1. MyLyn requires
Eclipse 3.3 minimum.

OK, I thought. not a problem - I'll download the trial version of RDi and look
at using that. However, it would appear that RDi also uses Eclipse 3.2.1.

Eclipse is now on version 3.4 and they are building version 3.5. Are there any
plans to provide WDSCi / RDi on a more recent version of Eclipse? Is there not a
possibility for IBM to provide WDSCi / RDi components as Eclipse plug-ins rather
than as part of a standalone application? This would be a better approach as we
could buy the parts we actually need rather than the whole package.

Anybody have any news about this?

Cheers

Larry Ducie


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