Poll results for -consoleLog as default option for new runtime configuration
Update -console will be standard in Eclipse 3.6 – Curtis Windatt did apply the patch from Bug report
The result for Poll – Default launch configuration for Eclipse plugin / RCP development are in.
In total we had 88 reponses. 74 selected “Yes”, 16 selected “No” (two of the voters selected both “Yes” and “No” which was an error in the survey setup from my side ).
This makes the following statistic:
Obviously the mayority of participants prefer “-consoleLog” as default option. I update the bug report with the details.
Filed under: Eclipse

December 2nd, 2009 at 9:28 pm
It’s very nice Eclipse-3.6 will have -consoleLog, as default, in running configuration.
December 12th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
[...] change in Bug for -consoleLog was also a community decision, which is a good example that Eclipse does consider user [...]