Please, guys, keep the following in mind: - Installing, or updating Eclipse can be done without administrative privileges. - Installing, or updating a JRE does.
Not all of us have root permissions, in particular not the Windows users. Jochen On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Tonny Madsen <tonny.mad...@gmail.com>wrote: > > It's just a statement that new stuff will require other new stuff. > > For me the operational word is "require" :-) > > And slightly easier development is *not* a hard requirement in my book. > Most of the problems the new resource construct can avoid can also be > avoided using findbug, checkstyle, etc... > > /Tonny > > -- > Tonny Madsen > My profiles: [image: LinkedIn] <http://www.linkedin.com/in/tonnymadsen> > [image: > Twitter] <http://twitter.com/tonnymadsen> [image: > Blogger]<http://tonnymadsen.blogspot.dk/> > [image: SlideShare] <http://www.slideshare.net/nonty> > > > On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Thomas Hallgren <tho...@tada.se> wrote: > >> On 2013-05-30 22:19, Tonny Madsen wrote: >> >>> No so... Remember that Eclipse can be installed everywhere - Java cannot. >>> >> >> That is a good point. However, I've never been able to understand why >> inertia in some organizations product department should be allowed to hold >> back technology progress for the developers. If an organization does allow >> upgrades of Eclipse (and hence upgrades of their development environments), >> then I find it very likely that they will allow the developers to use Java >> 7 as well. The fact that the developed product then runs on a Java 6 JVM is >> not relevant. m2e is all about development. The resulting artifact may well >> run on much older platforms. >> >> So, It's not like anything is taken away. It's just a statement that new >> stuff will require other new stuff. If you don't like new stuff, then just >> stay with the old! But don't expect all others to do so just because. >> >> - thomas >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> m2e-users mailing list >> m2e-users@eclipse.org >> https://dev.eclipse.org/**mailman/listinfo/m2e-users<https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/m2e-users> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > m2e-users mailing list > m2e-users@eclipse.org > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/m2e-users > > -- "That's what prayers are ... it's frightened people trying to make friends with the bully!" Terry Pratchett. The Last Hero
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