Eclipse for FIRST?

[prograid]

Originally Posted by gnirts

Plus, it looks like there are many different versions of the toolchain and error parser that different people have written. If there were an 'official' release, everyone's effort could go into that one product instead of spending time duplicating what others have already done.

The only two versions of the toolchain & error parser, one that I wrote last season, and the one Astronouth7303 is working on. You should use his, not mine. The only reason I have the update site still up is for the benefit of the people who might have already happened to have been using my plug-in.

P.S.
I will eventually (once I get around to changing the namespace from org.team254.mcc18 to com.astro73.fdt) contribute the toolchain plug-in from mine to FIRSTClipse project on SourceForge. If anyone feels like doing this for me, feel free to. I just haven't had the time, thanks to the actual robotics season and schoolwork taking up too much of my time.

[gnirts]

Originally Posted by prograid

I will eventually (once I get around to changing the namespace from org.team254.mcc18 to com.astro73.fdt) contribute the toolchain plug-in from mine to FIRSTClipse project on SourceForge. If anyone feels like doing this for me, feel free to.

Do you mean merge the differences between the plugins? Or just change the namespace? Why would having two versions of the toolchain be beneficial?

[prograid]

Originally Posted by gnirts

Do you mean merge the differences between the plugins? Or just change the namespace? Why would having two versions of the toolchain be beneficial?

I did mean change the namespace, and possibly add any options that are missing, (I don't think there are).
The reason I was saying this is that the extension point used to define the toolchain in the current plug-in on FIRSTclipse is deprecated. It should work for a while, but it's probably not a good practice to use deprecated extension points.. You really aren't losing any functionality with the old extension point though. Some of the non-technical differences would also have to be merged, such as tooltips, option names in the UI, etc.

So you're right, having two toolchains is not very beneficial.