whats good about galileo

Well its amazing the latest eclipse release train has come round the tracks and to use an old marketing cliché 'its good to talk'. So what about the new version whats good

well I have been doing an awful lot of emf work and this has improved a lot

1. much faster conversion of genmodels into java source code. I used to watch this menu bar a lot (tens of minutes)
   
   
   
   Its now much much faster, which is great when you have really big models...
   
   
2. Also since I tend to keep up with the M[1-7] versions this one looks like an excellent addition. I will have to try soon (as soon as I can get through to the friends of eclipse server or get a good torrent feed)
   
   
   
   
   
3. Links in java doc headers yeah! but still no search function in the external html viewer which is hard to setup if you are offline...
   
4. rectangular selections, I won't suffer from nedit withdrawal pangs any further
   
   
   
   
   
5. p2 the replacement for the update manager is much better, much more reliable. However, the UI is still a bit strange
   
   
   
   
   • why do you type to add to the site selection, rather than filter the selection?
     
   • why is the menu item in help called 'Install New Software...' when it leads to a dialog to 'Install and Manage Software...'?
   
   
   

Some pain points

when generating code with emf, debugging problems can be truly painful

• errors appear in projects that are hidden,
  
• errors get reported in dialog boxes which refer to line numbers in source text which doesn't have line numbers and has to be cut into other editors for analysis.
• errors which don't have line numbers or filenames
• errors in dialog boxes rather than in problem problem panes
• its really hard to rerun a source generation run from a gen model
  
• no usable text editor for jet
• limitations in jet and no sign of jet2
  
• etc

also

• you can't jump to a super class in the ecore editor
  
• navigating the ecore editor doesn't have the keyboard shortcuts the navigator has
• in mint if you go the ecore file from the genmodel it doesn't take you to the item you right clicked on
• the ecore sample editor doesn't notice resource changes...

now don't get me wrong these are all minor niggles compared to the size and breadth of the features implemented this year especially for example the introduction of emf databinding....

so all I have to do now for next year is to participate more and look forward to a sunny helios

regards
gary