Talk:PHP Development Tools

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BetacommandBot (talk) 17:29, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

About the comments made on PHPEclipse
I am a co-lead on the PHPEclipse projects which is midly bashed in this page, without serious references. Statements like :

"Before development on PDT started, PHPEclipse was decidedly the most used PHP plugin for Eclipse. It was functional for most aspects of PHP development, but debugging support and inline autocomplete functionality was lacking in quality. Development on this plugin has been continued, and version 1.2.0 is much more feature complete than PDT in some areas. www.phpeclipse.net"

... are pure FUD and BS, and unsubstantiated. I will NOT edit those, as that would be a conflict of interest. But I would appreciate if someone does, in a wAy that if there are comparaisons that are made they are substantiated by facts, and not qualitative and presented in the past tense.

Note that the PHPEclipse and the PDT projects are both open source projects (oine is company sponsored PDT, the other one PHPEclipse is community supported). That does not mean there has to be competition, especially on a reference wikipedia page.

--Pombredanne 01:59, 2 December 2007 (UTC)


 * I thought exactly the same, even before reading your comment. I thus replaced the non-neutral sentences by neutral ones. Then I thought that this § was not so useful and I deleted it. Why should the article on PDT talk about PHPEclipse? If it is considered useful, then symetrically we would also need the article about PHPEclipse to talk about PDT. And the content would probably be duplicated. A different page comparing PHPEclipse and PDT would certainly be useful, though. But I won't do it (not enough knowledge on the subject).--OlivierMiR (talk) 11:23, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

copyedit suggestions

 * Remove or rewrite speculative/unreferenced/unencyclopedic statements such as "The project intends to encompass all development components [..]" and "One of the interesting issues surrounding PDT [..]"
 * bold "header" text in the lead, maybe should have its own header
 * de-capitalize headers
 * There is a star ("*") in the middle of the text.

Fred-J 09:42, 1 March 2010 (UTC)