On 04/07/2016 01:32 AM, Daniel Dekany wrote: > 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
hm I think I will ask my jbosstools colleagues how to go forward. My understanding is that they pick eclispe stuff and later put it in the our IDE. Cheers Jean-Frederic > > > 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 >>> >>> >
