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Eclipse shows errors during a launch via the log views in both the host and the target system and on the file system. In addition the developer can specify the flag “-consoleLog” in the launch configuration so see potential error messages in the console view.

Bug 284704 had been opened asking if the “-consoleLog” flag could be included by default in a new launch configuration.

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Please note that this is my first attempt using SurveyMonkey, I hope this works well. I believe the survey will close after the first 100 answers. If this number has not reached I’m planning to close the survey next week 27. Nov. 2009.

Given the discussion about E4 and the evolution of Eclipse I’m wondering if it would make sense to flag certain Eclipse extension points as deprecated and add a warning to the PDE tooling if someone uses these extension points. This would help developes to do “the right thing”.

This question came to me while watching The Myth of the Genius Programmer. Björn quoted from this presentation in this post Criticism is not evil . In this video it was explained that tools matter in the sense that they guide new developer in a certain direction.

For example I believe that actions could be marked as deprecated. I see still a lot of questions which relates to actions in the newsgroup and I believe that commands are superior to actions. I know that the description indicates that “org.eclipse.ui.menus” can be used but perhaps more guidance would help?

Any opinions on this?

Update I submitted Bug 285034 for the enhancement in PDE / UI for the warning.