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  1. Fuse Tooling
  2. FUSETOOLS-28

hard to install m2eclipse from instructions

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    • Resolution: Done
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      Showing the Install PDF took a few reloads to view. Then using Google Chrome (which has an embedded PDF viewer) it wouldn't let me copy/paste the rather long URL for the Archetype Catalog. (Admittedly this is a Google Chrome issue; it might not affect any other browsers, am not sure - I guess it depends on the PDF viewer in different browsers on different OS's).

      So I had to save the link to the PDF as a file, open it in Preview to be able to copy/paste.

      Having a web page by default with links to the various legal notices would be great (most developers don't wanna have to wade through 4 pages of legal notices & loads of blank pages) so the web page could get cracking straight away with instructions with links to the legal notices as a single sentence at the top (or bottom). e.g. right now you have to go through about 17 pages to get to any actual meat on what to do to install Developer / m2eclipse. Really the steps are so simple they should fit on a page or two's screen. (One page if the screen shots were a hover-over popup thingy)

      So a more concise web page would be much easier for users to install (with a link to the PDF if they want to print it out). Remember our target customers are busy and often have short attention spans; the easier & quicker it is to get folks to install & run stuff the better.

      Finally when I tried to install m2eclipse and add the Archetype Catalog, I got on error when hitting Verify that it was an empty catalog. Wonder if recent m2eclipse is incompatible with our archetype catalog? I'm trying this on a fresh Eclipse 3.6.1 install BTW.

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            emjohnson_jira Eric Johnson (Inactive)
            jastrachan_jira James Strachan (Inactive)
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