Eclipse is a platform, not a set of IDEs you have to install differently. What you have downloaded and installed is a “starting point”. My installation has all the functionality in a single installation.
Eclipse has two ways to install more features marketplace and “install new software”. Both are integrated to every Eclipse package you download. Python is provided by PyDev under marketplace.
Eclipse handles VCS globally and puts every VCS to their own folders. VCS features are tucked under “Team” menu. “Share Project” is what you want.
When you share a project it’s moved to its VCS folder, that’s true, but the project doesn’t disappear from your workspace view. You continue working from the same point.
Git management has its own view (called a perspective), reachable from top right. This perspective allows to manage any git repository regardless of they are your projects or not.
Eclipse has a different workflow than other tools, but I don’t find it backwards (I use BBEdit, KATE, Git Tower and countless others), every tool has a different take and that’s OK.
If you import a project from git directly, Eclipse works the way you expect.
If you still want to discover Eclipse, I can support you. If you don’t, there are no hard feelings. It’s a tool which has its own ways (like Vim, EMacs, XCode and VSCode and others). This doesn’t make it backwards, but different.
I appreciate you responding, although I actually was trying to save you the trouble by saying that I wasn't asking for tech support - it was more that I was using your comment as a contextual mini-blog/rant place to warn off others
That's because I'm cheating you: I knew about the marketplace, although Eclipse's "p2" concept drives me stark-raving when trying to setup a new instance on a machine. What I'm saying is that my life experience with Eclipse has been it is the "well, here are some components, build yourself an excellent IDE from them!" in the most user hostile way possible. It feels like the same committee that generated the Rational Unified Process got into making software. Architectural astronauts, using OSGi, to ensure than everything works on a presentation slide and nothing works when trying to run it
https://marketplace.eclipse.org/comment/8289#comment-8289 is a representative example of the same experience I've had with the "Eclipse ecosystem," showing it's not just me but a systemic problem with their release management discipline
Eclipse has two ways to install more features marketplace and “install new software”. Both are integrated to every Eclipse package you download. Python is provided by PyDev under marketplace.
Eclipse handles VCS globally and puts every VCS to their own folders. VCS features are tucked under “Team” menu. “Share Project” is what you want.
When you share a project it’s moved to its VCS folder, that’s true, but the project doesn’t disappear from your workspace view. You continue working from the same point.
Git management has its own view (called a perspective), reachable from top right. This perspective allows to manage any git repository regardless of they are your projects or not.
Eclipse has a different workflow than other tools, but I don’t find it backwards (I use BBEdit, KATE, Git Tower and countless others), every tool has a different take and that’s OK.
If you import a project from git directly, Eclipse works the way you expect.
If you still want to discover Eclipse, I can support you. If you don’t, there are no hard feelings. It’s a tool which has its own ways (like Vim, EMacs, XCode and VSCode and others). This doesn’t make it backwards, but different.