tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914783.post150557766332128463..comments2009-12-23T23:06:17.897+05:30Ankur Sharmahttps://profiles.google.com/114582282039645611012noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914783.post-86643641127672651062009-06-19T04:30:31.000+05:302009-06-19T04:30:31.000+05:30@Adam<br>I have never worked on netbeans so really can&#39;t comment but I will take your word as its the similar story I have heard from others too. As you appreciated, Eclipse is not just an IDE and its that &#39;much more&#39; about it that makes it cool. As for finding help, if Google isn&#39;t really helping you out , I would recommend trying the eclipse newsgroups and IRC Channels. Contributors are quite active there and almost always quite willing to help.Ankur Sharmahttp://ankursharma.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914783.post-11825118556779715802009-06-19T04:22:48.000+05:302009-06-19T04:22:48.000+05:30@Nick<br>&quot;Proceed with Precaution&quot; :-)Ankur Sharmahttp://ankursharma.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914783.post-22574199884977428582009-06-19T04:09:15.000+05:302009-06-19T04:09:15.000+05:30@Tiran <br>I agree p2 came in 3.4 but the provisioning has evolved quite a lot 3.5. I may be as clueless about it but I can say this by seeing the bug activity around it. p2 may look like a black box but as the acceptance rises, we will see more articles and documentation. That shall improve the things. All I am clear about as of now is that p2 is here to stay.Ankur Sharmahttp://ankursharma.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914783.post-8571216167400586692009-06-16T00:46:26.000+05:302009-06-16T00:46:26.000+05:30I am not sure how you define P2 as a new thing in 3.5, as it was introduced with 3.4 (after being pushed into one of the last milestones).<br><br>Also while it is certainly a step in the right direction in some ways, it dropped some very useful features some of us actually used. And effectively turned an Eclipse installation into a &#39;black box with stuff in&#39; as opposed to something we could actually easily manipulate.Tiran Kenjanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914783.post-51316647717350970372009-06-14T16:39:15.000+05:302009-06-14T16:39:15.000+05:30P2 can also be defined as &quot;Pascal&#39;s Project&quot;, &quot;Pain in the Pouch&quot;, &quot;Provisioning Platform&quot;, &quot;Provisioning Perfected&quot;, or &quot;Plug-in Provisioning&quot;. It&#39;s also the first two syllables of P&#39;tootie, as in <br><br>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Patootie_(Whatever_Happened_to_Saturday_Night%3F)<br><br>That said, it&#39;s much better than the alternative: the &quot;Classic&quot; Update Manager from the Eclipse 3.2 - 3.3 years.Nick Boldthttp://divbyzero.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914783.post-21177928587363925342009-06-14T08:02:10.000+05:302009-06-14T08:02:10.000+05:30I am also a eclipse noob (still on ganymede)! I am coming from netbeans and one thing I really miss is the ability to browse the jdk java docs easily from the ide. As of right now I only know of the ability to look at the docs for the currently open source. I also find the help documentation difficult to find what I am looking for as the information seems scattered all over the place. The RCP docs seem difficult to navigate also. One more thing that bothers me is the fact that the profiler is not standard. Also the TPTP seems to be using an ancient libc.so on linux, it took a long time to figure out by googleing that I had to install a libc.so compiled against gcc 2.95? But in all I am pleased with the change from netbeans.Adamnoreply@blogger.com