April 14, 2003
Griping
Its probably me, but the lovely people from the Eclipse.org project could really do with a whack from the clue stick.
The front page of the web site has no "start here" or "introduction" sections. The link to the downloads is just a list of mirrors, no indication of what to do once you get there.
People, if you want idiots like me to use your tools give us at least a simple guide to download and installation. A noddy tutorial for when you start using the tool is also useful, but as I don't know how to install it yet, that's probably a step too far.
Before anyone starts accusing me of being any more stupid than I have admitted to so far, I have downloaded the SDK package (all 62 megabytes of it). That contains a README file, which also has no mention of how to do an installation. Bloody marvellous, and about as useful as a chocolate fireguard.
Posted by Andy Todd at April 14, 2003 02:18 PM
Just unzip and run, mate. No installation required. Once you are in, the help is pretty good.
Posted by: Simon on April 14, 2003 03:14 PMI've figured that out now, but why isn't it on the front page of eclipse.org in large - flaming - letters?
Bloody programmers shouldn't be allowed to design web sites ;-)
Posted by: Andy Todd on April 14, 2003 03:27 PMTRue, but so far as I'm concerned whatever brownie points it loses for crap documentation it *more* than makes up for in not fucking about with my registry.
I like the way it works. To install, unzip. To uninstall, just delete the directory, leaving *nothing* behind.
Posted by: Simon on April 14, 2003 03:41 PMHere, here to the registry tampering (or rather lack of). It does look nice, even if it isn't VIM.
Now, if I can get it to talk to DB2 as well everything will be right in the world.
Posted by: Andy Todd on April 14, 2003 04:30 PM