On 04/07/2016 10:46 AM, jean-frederic clere wrote: > 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.
Actually they would be quite happy to help, joining https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jbosstools-dev asking there and following their instructions should be enough. We should get a commit and then nightly build of the plugins easily. Cheers Jean-Frederic > > 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 >>>> >>>> >> >
