Neon

Eclipse Platform on Java 9 b118

Wednesday, May 18, 2016 - 14:34 by Wayne Beaton
Update: Note that as of October 11/2017, Java 9 is 100% supported “out of the box” by Eclipse IDE, Oxygen Edition; Java 9 can be used to run your Eclipse IDE, Oxygen Edition, and can be used to build Java 9 applications without additional configuration. Download or update today. I’d...

Git Staging View

Monday, May 16, 2016 - 15:57 by Wayne Beaton
I’ll admit that I never bothered much with the Git Staging View before now, preferring instead to make all of my commits from the Commit dialog. The milestone seven (M7) builds of the Neon versions of the various Eclipse IDE downloads now all bring the Git Staging view to the...

Great Fixes from Till Brychcy

Friday, May 13, 2016 - 14:28 by Wayne Beaton
Our third winner in the Great Fixes for Neon skills competition is Till Brychcy. Till has used the Eclipse Java development tools (JDT) since 2003, and made his first contribution in 2013. In the time between the 2015 Mars release and today, Till has had 41 separate commits accepted by...

Great Fixes from Nathan Ridge

Monday, May 2, 2016 - 21:13 by Wayne Beaton
Our second winner in the Great Fixes for Eclipse Neon Skills Competition is Nathan Ridge. Nathan made eighty qualifying contributions to the Eclipse C/C++ Development Tools (CDT) project. Nathan uses CDT both in his day job, which involves systems programming in C++, and in personal projects, which are mostly small...

Great Fixes from Eric Williams

Wednesday, April 20, 2016 - 16:54 by Wayne Beaton
Updating to GTK3 has been a bit of a challenge. While researching this problem earlier this year, I ran across countless blog posts, and forum comments from all sorts of open source project teams that were frustrated with their own efforts to update to GTK. Some had starting making plans...

Great Fixes for Neon

Wednesday, April 13, 2016 - 23:06 by Wayne Beaton
Great Fixes for Eclipse Neon is a skills competition. Flex your Eclipse development skills for an opportunity to win prizes and acclaim! A Great Fix is a contribution provides a significant improvement in projects participating in the Eclipse Neon Simultaneous Release, with a particular focus on projects that contribute to...