December 1st, 2008
I heart Subclipse again…I retract my Subversive iheart.
A while back I was having serious issues with the Subclipse plugin and moved to Subversive. I was thoroughly impressed at the time and posted a rave on how cool Subversive is:
http://www.iheartair.com/?p=154
I’m here to tell you now that for the 0.7 release for Eclipse 3.3, the version of Subversive included with Eclipse 3.4 Ganymede, and the corresponding SVNKit and JavaHL connectors I retract that rave review. (It still may be valid for the older version though.)
For the last month or so my Subversive plugin has been dog slow on any projects with substantial beef to them. The issue I would experience is that whenever I right clicked project and try to update or commit Eclipse would freeze up while it “Updated the SVN Cache”. Sometimes just right-clicking to update or commit would completely freeze the IDE for up to several minutes. This happened to me whether I was in Eclipse 3.3 or Eclipse 3.4 and whether I used the SVNKit or the JavaHL connector. Oh…and I’m on Windows XP SP 3.
The other issue I have with Subversive these days is due to licensing when you try to install from the Ganymede site http://www.eclipse.org/subversive/downloads.php you have to grab the Subversive plugin and the connectors seperately. This is a pia, especially when I can do the install of the Subclipse plugin in one step.
I know as another troubleshooting step compatibility-wise I can probably ask the admin here to update our SVN server to 1.5.4 since it’s still on 1.4.5 but to be honest, the plugin should work well regardless.
I’ve fought it, troubleshooted it, and lived with it over the last month or so with two different Eclipse/Flex Builder installs, and I couldn’t find anything in Google. The bottom line is I don’t have the luxury and/or time to be posting a bunch of bug reports and being a guinea pig on this, I’ve got some pretty hefty projects with pretty tight deadlines right now.
So, I’ve moved back to Subclipse, 1.4.x to be exact…I’m loving it today, the issues with updating and commit freezing for several minutes at a time is gone, and frankly I’m going to be more productive with it.
If you want to check it out: http://subclipse.tigris.org/install.html
