I’d like a 3.8.4 for 3.1, too.
On the other hand, if making a QA’ed 3.8.4 release for 3.1 takes a significant amount of time it would be quite a waste to do it, since it’s only needed to bridge the wait for 4.0GA.
Sorry guys, but the work is actually quite large (actually as large as it was to do the 4.0M2 port). Additionally, due to the volume of work we’d have to do a full QA effort, again, on 3.8.4 since so much would’ve changed. Instead, we invested the resources in 4.0M2 so that all of the 3.8.4 features are production quality and the new features are also quite usable, just not yet finished. At the present time, we’re not planning a 3.8.4 port for Eclipse 3.1 since it really wouldn’t be 3.8.4 anymore, due to the level of effort. Over the last couple of days we’ve had about 10,000 downloads of 4.0M2 for 3.1 and no showstoppers reported, on either new or existing functionality. Please give it a go and let us know what you think.