I have been stuck with a basically unusable Eclipse for over a month now due to the my use of the Dvorak keyboard layout and the latest 10.5.6 update. The problem is that the updates to the carbon framework broke keybindings for carbon based apps like Word, and Eclipse for anybody that that does not use a qwerty keyboard.
The last couple of weeks, Dan Shafer has been looking for the best php development environment for Mac and found Aptana Studio which is based on Eclipse. Since we both work in NOLOH, my ears pricked up, but I was not able to look at Aptana myself because it suffered from the same issues as regular Eclipse.
Anybody that knows me can guess what came next, and if you are still interested read on to see the solution that I found.
This afternoon all I knew was that my development environment was broken, I was settling for TextMate and Transmit, and I was checking out the latest bbedit without finding true development happiness. And my friend was checking out a development environment that he seems to like! So I started googling…
First I found many complaints on the Apple forums about the same issues that I was experiencing. The only surprise there, was the deafening silence from Apple about fixing this travesty. For well over thirty days by the way! Moving on I discovered that the issue seemed to only revolve around carbon based apps. Eventually I found the answer here. It boils down to making a backup of Carbon.framework, deleting the live copy, and copying a backup from before the update in place. You do use Time Machine, or some other backup process, right?
NOW, Eclipse works as before, and I can check out Aptana! Still mad at Apple for not fixing this yet. Happy to be back with tools that I am used to.
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