[clue-tech] Eclipse: What are people using it for

[David L. Anselmi]

Sean LeBlanc wrote:
[...]
> We did "standardize" about a year ago on IntelliJ for our IDE, and it seemed
> to highlight just how much Eclipse can sometimes be sluggish. However,
> IntelliJ does not have the autobuild feature that Eclipse now has turned on
> by default, and so I never really moved over to IntelliJ.

I'm curious about autobuilding.  Does it give you a different 
environment than production and hide some issues until testing or 
integration that could be found earlier?  Do things build differently 
for the developers than for the build master due to environmental 
differences?

When I was a developer I also did all the CM, build management, and 
release management.  We had a process for managing the software leading 
up to a release including building and packaging it for installation on 
the production system.

It was possible for the developers to run their code on their own 
environment that matched production, and to build, install, and 
configure using the same process I used.  They could also update 
individual files without rebuilding everything but that was somewhat manual.

But we sometimes had problems if the developers did things differently, 
like running on their laptops in an environment they created themselves. 
  Because some developers didn't understand the production environment 
and I didn't understand their custom environments (and couldn't take 
their laptop away to troubleshoot) it could be hard to debug these things.

Dave