[TYPO3-dev] Eclipse Newbie

[Stefan Geith]

Hi Devs,

I already tried several times to start using an IDE (eclipse or 
whatever) for developping with Typo3, but I didn't have much success (or 
maybe 'familiarization' ?) ...

Maybe you Devs could answer me some (simple ?) questions ?

a) Are there many Devs using an IDE for development or are
    there still some 'hardcore'-coders doing this with vi ?

b) If an IDE, then I should use Eclipse - right ?
    What Version should I download - PHPeclipse ?
    What plugins/extensions for Eclipse are a _must_ ?
    What plugins/extensions are useful ?

c) Maybe a silly question, but I have no idea about that:
    How/Where do I create new Workspaces -
    - One Worspace for every plugin and one for core-development ?
    - One for all plugins and another one for the core ?
      (If this, then every Plugin could be a 'project' - right ?)
    - Only one Workspace for all Typo3-Developpment ?
    - Where should I save these Workspaces - on my local harddisk
      or on the network-folder, where my Typo3 installation
      resides ?

d) I uses a Windows-PC for developpment and a Linux-Server
    with LAMP, that is accessed by a network-share - Is this
    OK or should I have a local WAMP on my Dev-PC ?

I hope your answers help me successfully starting Eclipse ;)

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I think I should summarize your answers in the wiki - right ?

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Stefan Geith