RE: SEU vs. ?

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Jon Paris
>
> In other words - the problem would
> appear to lie with Windows, not with IBM.  If even MS cannot get
> installs to work on their own OS what hope for anyone else?

I don't want to get too involved in this debate - got three demos this week,
and the Eclipse book just went to press, so I'm beat - but one truism about
Windows is that if you use the registry, you are asking for trouble.

Eclipse, which doesn't use anything in the registry and simply uses
configuration files in its own little directory, almost never botches up,
and I can have multiple copies with no problem.  In fact, I currently have
four different versions of Eclipse installed on my workstation (in order to
keep track of screen captures for my book during the many changes leading up
to the final release of version 2.1).

On the other hand, if I understand correctly you can only have one version
of WDSCi at any one time, and you have to be careful about installing one
over the other.  Now, since WDSCi is in theory Eclipse++, it seems that the
WDSCi portion of the code broke the stability of Eclipse.

So do we laud IBM for creating a truly stellar product in Eclipse, or vilify
them for trashing it with WDSC?  I suppose it depends on your mood <grin>.

Joe