I'm not sure what do you mean. The latest version is always here, but I can't tell users to build it themselves: https://github.com/ddekany/jbosstools-freemarker/tree/merged
Thursday, April 7, 2016, 1:24:40 AM, John D. Ament wrote: > What if you just push eclipse plugins and skip jboss ide? > On Apr 6, 2016 19:22, "Daniel Dekany" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Someone could still figure out if we can legally offer our own JBoss >> FreeMarker IDE build for download, and how is it best to distribute >> (like should we host our own update site somewhere?). >> >> Why? As I have said earlier, FreeMarker IDE fixes get into JBoss IDE >> releases with quite big delay. Like I have some 4 months old pull >> requests, quite simple ones, but none of them is merged in yet. I have >> asked about it, and was told that maybe they will find time reviewing >> them for the JBoss IDE release for Eclipse Neon. I guess that will be >> a few more months. So, we could release updates with a half a year >> less delay or such, which is clearly significant. >> >> >> Monday, September 28, 2015, 12:10:08 AM, Daniel Dekany wrote: >> >> > So it's on http://freemarker.org/contribute.html, but... >> > >> > - I just want to emphasize that it's quite important for the success >> > of the project. People need to edit the templates with something, >> > and efficiently. For you convenience, the pending Jira issues: >> > >> > >> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-20512?jql=project%20%3D%20JBIDE%20AND%20status%20in%20%28Open%2C%20%22Coding%20In%20Progress%22%2C%20Reopened%2C%20%22Pull%20Request%20Sent%22%29%20AND%20component%20%3D%20freemarker >> > >> > - You can help even if you aren't into Eclipse plugin development! A >> > problem is currently that the release of the plugin seems to be >> > bound to the release of the JBoss Tools project which is very >> > infrequent for our purpose. Maybe the fixes should just be >> > back-ported into the previous JBoss Tools branch too solve that, and >> > that's not done, but I really don't know. In any case, currently, >> > FreeMarker IDE release cycles are way too slow [*]. A solution for >> > this should be figured out, and discussed with the JBoss Tools guys. >> > Like, just as an example, maybe we should set up our own plugin >> > update site, and do the builds ourselves, but then legal issues has >> > to be considered, and if that could interfere with the JBoss Tools >> > installation of the users. >> > >> > *: For example, I have asked to increase the FreeMarker version in >> > 2.3.23. And sure it was done in the repo quickly (thanks to Denis >> > Golovin who has also squashed several FreeMarker IDE bugs), but >> > it's scheduled for JBoss Tools 4.4.0. That, I guess, is about 12 >> > months away! Until that, FreeMarker IDE won't handle the new >> > features of 2.3.23, which was released months ago. Or, FreeMarker >> > IDE was pretty much unusably broken in 4.2.0. Months ago, it was >> > fixed, and now its quite usable. Big difference. But for most user >> > that will only become visible in 4.3.0, which is has only entered >> > CR1 state not very long ago. Now, it all could be kind of OK, if >> > there were JBoss IDE dependencies in FreeMarker IDE, or the other >> > way around, but as far as I see there's pretty much none. So >> > technically FreeMarker IDE could be released independently. >> > >> >> -- >> Thanks, >> Daniel Dekany >> >> -- Thanks, Daniel Dekany
