While playing with the SDK I noticed some realy bad stuff. Documenting here in the hopes to having it fixed:

InstallManager (really bad code quality):

• Installation doesn’t succeed when folders already exist because an exception will cause the installer to abort when a file can’t be hardlinked.
• InstallManager (java) uses shell commands to copy/remove files. Java has great support for file operations such that there is no need to use shell commands, especially if it makes the code more complex and less portable.
• Over-eagerly uses exceptions when return values would be perfectly fine

SDK:

• Require root privileges for installation: some scripts relink stuff from my distribution – the SDK *REALLY* shouldn’t touch my system! It’s a user component that has no business changing the system.
• Building a project Tried erasing my harddrive when i ran “make clean” on a native project -> when SA_REPORT_PATH is not set, rm -rf /* is executed. I also managed to trigger this from within the SDK by accident – not cool! Get rid of the wildcard in the makefile or at the very least check if the variable is empty before applying the wildcard on it.
• Lacks x86_64 target support
• (Is based on eclipse…)