dev env setup - eclipse installation

[saiedt]

The quick guides say to download and install eclipse from https://eclipse.org/downloads/, where I decided to to install java-oxygen.
Then having a look at the detailed guildes, it was talking about version 4.6 from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/eclipse-modeling-tools/neon3. Several issues here:

1. As opposed to my assumption, this was not meant in terms of adding the EMT plugin to the already installed java-oxygen, but it was a complete eclipse installation, which meant that I wasted my time installing java-oxygen.
2. Following the EMT-Neon3 link, I found no hints with version numbers; the file to download was apparently eclipse-modeling-neon-3-win32-x86_64.zip (for Windows 64 bit).
3. Due to lack of version numbers, I looked to the list of packages on the left side of the same page, and I encountered that after Neon3, there have been two newer releases: Photon and Oxygen! Following Neon packages, I found the same eclipse-modeling-neon-3-win32-x86_64.zip also there (by searching for "modeling"). So, I went to Oxygen packages and searched for "modeling" and found the newer version eclipse-modeling-oxygen-3a-win32-x86_64.zip and was amazed why I should install a version from two previous generations.

[cstockloew]

1.)
I found several pages with infos on the Eclipse version:

• platform wiki - Quick: https://github.com/universAAL/platform/wiki/Development-environment-setup-%28Quick%29
• platform wiki - Details: https://github.com/universAAL/platform/wiki/Development-environment-setup-%28Details%29
• platform wiki - Reference: https://github.com/universAAL/platform/wiki/Reference---Quick-setup-and-start-guide
• tools wiki: https://github.com/universAAL/tools.eclipse-plugins/wiki/universAAL-Studio-overview-and-installation
  But they all mention the version of Eclipse (4.6 Neon) to install. They also clearly say, that you only need this version number if you plan to use the universAAL Tools (if you don't use the tools, you can use whatever version of Eclipse you want).

2.)
If you mean the version number of Eclipse: there are 5 download links:
Windows 32-bit, Windows 64-bit, Mac OS X (Cocoa) 64-bit, Linux 32-bit, Linux 64-bit.
IMHO we can assume that a developer knows which version to download. I guess everyone who calls himself a developer knows which OS he is using (Linux or Windows) and whether it is 32 or 64 Bit. We do not plan to provide any further support on this; if it is really needed, there are plenty of tutorials on Eclipse available on the internet.

3.)
First: it's only one new release: Oxygen. Photon is currently at milestone 6 (M6) in the pre-release state; it is not offiicially released yet. Usually, a new version of Eclipse is released end of June.
As for the question why we only provide the tools for Neon and not for Oxygen yet: it was a matter of resources; for now, it was necessary to have a version of the tools that, at least, brings us forward, because the former officially supported version of Eclipse was Indigo (3.7). Thus, we already made a big step to go to Neon.