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Remove Mylyn and PDE from BIRT product
+1 for removing Mylyn, not 100% sure about PDE.
Developing a plugin (even if it is for BIRT) is so very different from developing reports, that > 99% of the BIRT users will never do this. OTOH if one really needs to develop a plugin for BIRT (I once did and I've started to develop a QR-code plugin in my free time) than the all-in-one developer environment is the natural choice.
Wouldn't you say that the SDK is the natural choice in that case?
https://github.com/eclipse/birt#create-a-birt-development-environment
I can only speak for myself here.
When I developed the first plugin ~ 10 years ago, there was a tutorial and it was not too complicated to create a plugin with the All-in-one-designer. I would have been totally helpless with the SDK then.
When I started with the QR-code plugin, last weekend, I did use the SDK - but only because I already have the SDK installed and I didn't want to run 3 Eclipse environments (1=SDK run --> 2=all-in-one for plugin development debug --> 3=all-in-one to test the plugin). Still, the SDK ist too much for my little brain - I didn't know where to start, so I cloned the sample RotatedText plugin as a workaround.
IMHO it was much easier with the All-in-one environment, where basically you could just choose between creating a report/library/template or a plugin. OTOH it is helpful to have the full source code at hand for debugging the plugin.
Yes, it makes sense. We will keep PDE in then. IIRC PDE was required in the early days because of the error log being there. I have ported that view to Eclipse Platform a couple of years ago.
