[TYPO3-dev] Eclipse Newbie

[Ingo Renner]

Stefan Geith wrote:

Hi Stefan,

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

At least from T3DD I know that many use eclipse

> b) If an IDE, then I should use Eclipse - right ?
>    What Version should I download - PHPeclipse ?

Don't use PHPeclipse, get PDT: http://www.eclipse.org/pdt

>    What plugins/extensions for Eclipse are a _must_ ?

Anyedit is cool for removing trailing whitespace when saving a file. 
Other then that it depends on what you want to do.

> 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 ?

However you like, I have a single workspace containing all project. I 
then use working sets to slim down that list to the projects I currently 
need / am working on.

> d) I uses a Windows-PC for developpment and a Linux-Server
>    with LAMP, that is accessed by a network-share

That's ok.

Looks like we need an eclipse session for T3DD08 =)


Ingo

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Ingo Renner
TYPO3 Core Developer, Release Manager TYPO3 4.2