Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Eclipse 3.3rc1 and imports

I'm using Eclipse 3.3 rc 1 and the automatic insertion of imports at the top of Java files isn't always working properly. I just had to hand craft my first import in what must be years. So I'll just take this opportunity to say thank you to Eclipse and all those other lovely IDE's out there which have made my daily development life so much easier - and even if it isn't working now, I'm sure it'll be working for the final.

I'm not going to bother creating a formal bug for this though - I'd have to first log on to the Eclipse site, which would mean username and password retrieval as well as first searching if the bug is even there already then lodging it if not. I should lodge a bug report, but this time I'm not. I'm like a rebel without a cause;P

Okay I caved... the bug report is over here. So much for being a rebel;P

[Note: This bug was pretty quickly closed as "works for me" since I didn't have a solid set of steps to reproduce the bug. Whilst I'll agree with this kind of thing in the most case, if it is stated that the bug is happening intermittently there is a good chance that there will never be a set of steps to reproduce this bug. Well, a bug that is happening only 1% of the time on a feature that is used 1000 times a day by a developer will very quickly come back to haunt when the latest version of Eclipse goes out for official 3.3 release. Intermittent bugs should only ever be ignored if they occur on a function which is used rarely.]

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