Eclipse for FIRST?

[gnirts]

Originally Posted by TheHolyLancer

but all of these are ongoing projects, not the finished product where i could unzip into the plugins folder or even a fully finished eclipse download and use, like regular eclipse with JDK and java

Originally Posted by chris31

Look at the last few posts of this thread.
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=50236

He's (TheHolyLancer) right, though, and I had the same issue when setting up my development environment. There should be at least a semi-official release of Eclipse that all FIRSTers can use. There are several different versions of the toolchain and error parser from different teams and threads on CD, not to mention different releases of Eclipse and the CDT. Also, there should be an agreed-upon installation/configuration of make and the order of including library files in compilation.

The point is there needs to be either an unzip-and-go file with detailed instructions or an .exe installer release for this, and efforts in areas like the error parser need to be combined so we aren't duplicating each other's work. Astronouth's work is great but in my opinion not well documented, especially for those new for FIRST or Eclipse.