@RalphSester Yes that is correct. My version is without the new api. I made those changes before (or at least independent of) the work of Ollie on the binding.
@RalphSester and @suntribe I’ve seen the discussion about a vm environment before. But nobody seems to be wiling to pick this up and maintain. However, what also plays a part. We have support in the Eclipse installer that should install everything out-of-the-box so it should be easy to get an development environment installed. And I think the learning curve there isn’t necessarily about installing the development environment. But how to work with Eclipse. A VM version won’t help with this. At this moment the documentation on Eclipse has some rough edges, making it somewhat more difficult to get started when you start without much experience with Eclipse. I wrote a tutorial here on how forum on how to migrate a binding based on the old build system and move to the new build system (see this post). That contains also all steps needed to install eclipse (I’m still planning to use this information to update the Eclipse installation documentation). Using this tutorial in combination with the current documentation on Eclipse should give the information you need to get started.
Related to Eclipse. It’s somewhat more difficult when you have additional libraries. This is what most people had (or have) problems with (that or either it are post when during or shortly after the migration of the new build system). With my branch all libraries are from core and this issues isn’t a problem then. The Ollie branch does have additional libraries (that I replaced, which was the intention of my changes) and therefor more understanding on how things work is needed to debug. So if you would start with my branch it should be easier to get started.
Another thing is. When a current branch based on a snapshot version is a bit older. It can be the parent build structure has been improved (also related to the build system change). Because it’s snapshot based this can result in build problems for that branch. In such case it’s best to git pull --rebase the branch on the latest snapshot version (and don’t forget to git push --force when pushing the branch back to github)
If you still have problems with the Eclipse installation or questions feel free to ask (Either here or on a new topic (category development → build)) and I can see how I can help.