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Then you have never used IBM's development tool WSAD. I needed some extra space on my C drive so that windows could defragment the drive, so I had a poke anround and saw that WSAD was taking up just over 800MBs of space (this is the bare bones install with no development work done in it), It must take 5 minutes to load because it searchs through every byte of the 800Mb or something. I never use this app on my machine as it's too slow so decided it was time to remove it, It's now been 30 minutes and the WSAD install still isn't done, it says it's configuring IBM Websphere Studio Application Developer 5; I don't want it configure I just want the thing removed!

Update: It just completed, total uninstall time 43 minutes, and it didn't even have the manners to tell me it was done.

Posted by Carl Tyler On 02/17/2004 | | del.icio.us  Technorati  Digg This 

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Gravatar Image1 - Wanna a copy of Visual Studio.net instead?

Posted by Tony C At 09:14:02 AM On 02/18/2004 | - Website - |


Gravatar Image2 - We use it already, but always want more copies, where do I send my shipping address

Posted by Carl At 10:19:06 AM On 02/18/2004 | - Website - |


Gravatar Image3 - TextPad or XCode all the way. None o' this WSAD / Visual Studio nonsense for me.

Posted by Ben Poole At 01:22:52 PM On 02/18/2004 | - Website - |


Gravatar Image4 - Eclipse is really quick, free and sits in 65-70Mb. It's great for domino java development as the Agent runner integration is the same as WSAD.

Posted by Tony Palmer At 05:38:16 PM On 02/18/2004 | - Website - |


Gravatar Image5 - We're using IntelliJ IDEA.
Seems like Eclipse will become the standard tool for upcoming IBM/Lotus products.

Posted by Brian Green At 07:58:58 PM On 02/20/2004 | - Website - |


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