
This way you get BOTH from the file name and it is sortable in a directory listing. I would much prefer a file naming convention like:

the "platform" with a default set of plugins to achieve specialized tasks), such as Eclipse IDE for Java Developers, Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers, Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers, etc (see this link for a comparison of their content). On top of the "platform", Eclipse then distributes various Packages (i.e. Eclipse Oxygen (4.7) ( in the original version of this answer, it said "Helios (3.6.1)"). My suggestion would be to use the latest version, i.e. To summarize, Helios, Galileo, Ganymede, etc are just code names for versions of the Eclipse platform (personally, I'd prefer Eclipse to use traditional version numbers instead of code names, it would make things clearer and easier). Ganymede 25 June 2008 3.4 Ganymede projectsĬallisto 30 June 2006 3.2 Callisto projects Galileo 24 June 2009 3.5 Galileo projects Release Main Release Platform version Projects So far, each Simultaneous Release has occurred at the end of June.



Until the Galileo release, releases were named after the moons of the solar system. Each release includes the Eclipse Platform as well as a number of other Eclipse projects. Since 2006, the Eclipse Foundation has coordinated an annual Simultaneous Release. The Eclipse (software) page on Wikipedia summarizes it pretty well: Releases
