Remove Mylyn and PDE from BIRT product

[wimjongman]

These two products have not much to do with report designers.

[hvbtup]

+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.

[wimjongman]

Wouldn't you say that the SDK is the natural choice in that case?

https://github.com/eclipse/birt#create-a-birt-development-environment

[hvbtup]

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.

[wimjongman]

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.

[speckyspooky]

Mylin was removed with PR #1405