I just noticed the new downloads page via Denis’ post. Nice to see the packages! I am looking forward to seeing a larger set as some of the projects mature.

And I noticed that the Mylyn/Mylar project is the first ever addition to the standard Eclipse download. Congratulations guys! I know that there has been alot of work behind the plugin. (I guess it is time for me to try using it.)

Looking at the page, I had two ‘disappointments’ though:

• Mylyn seems to not be included in the C/C++ package. As a plugin developer, I was hoping that over-time users’ Eclipse environments for Java and C/C++ would get closer. This forces us to choose between building on Mylyn or building on the C/C++ package.
• SVN support is not included in the packages. Yes, I know that the licensing issues need to be resolved. But its absence is a limitation. Having something would make our (plugin-developers) lives easier in providing support for only one platform. (Also, it is hard to be evangelizing Eclipse when every developer that I have been talking to in the last few months is using subversion).

I am also not sure what the difference is between Eclipse Classic and the RCP/Plug-in Developers editions. The current page is only a prototype, so I imagine this will become clarified soon.

For those of you that develop Eclipse Plugins, I have created a Facebook group: Eclipse Plugin Developers Group. Facebook gives a nice community feel and hopefully it will become a great resource for collaborating.

And if you are a committer or a committer wannabe there is this group (and this post) as well.

Yes, Europa is only 4 days away, but how many of you use Eclipse 3.0? As a plugin developer, it will help getting an idea of how much effort I should be spend in maintaining functionality for older versions (or if I should just hack on improving the core features). And maybe this will be helpful to others as well.

So, about a year after release…

If you use more than one version, please do select the one you use most often. If you are using a product built on Eclipse please indicate the version of the Eclipse base: Rational 6.0 is built on Eclipse 3.0, 7.0 is built on Eclipse 3.2, etc.

If someone has statistics (or rough estimates) for this, that will definitely be appreciated.