The Clusterfuck that is Eclipse
After writing some Groovy code in my usual-but-featureless editor, I decided I’d install the Groovy Plugin for Eclipse.
What a fucking mistake that was.
The process should take all of a minute, point Eclipse at the proper repository, install the plugin, and get to coding. Right? Wrong.
First, I ran into the always-fun Eclipse is making me review every fucking license for every piece of software installed, only it won’t let me continue even if I approve all of them issue.
Apparently, that’s Eclipse’s way of telling you that you need to update the IDE (thanks, Google). So I check for updates first, and there’s a few, mostly my subversion add-ons and the IDE itself. I tried to install those, but kept running into update failures. A few dozen No Repository Found Containing… errors and I was ready to pull my hair out, but I opted to try Devon’s suggestion anyway.
It didn’t work.
And after spending over an hour fucking with the damned thing, it still hasn’t installed. The farthest I’ll get is the plugin going about 14% in, and then erroring out.
So you know what, I give up. I don’t have the time to deal with this right now (I’m only hurriedly writing this blog while eating lunch), I’ll have to continue with EditPlus until I have another free hour or two to figure out why this is failing every single time. You win, Eclipse, you’ve beaten me.