scala-ide/scala-ide — comment on commit 279b136243d131af3cacce6505bc73c36c00b332
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By mdr:

Perhaps, but there are documented pitfalls with scala.Application (http://www.scala-lang.org/api/current/scala/Application.html), so I thought it would be simplest to stick to the clunky-but-reliable explicit main method as the fallback.