Thanks, I have brought this up on jbosstools-dev, and they have started reviewing/merging the PR, so all's good, for now. (Regarding if we can help avoiding this kind of problem somehow, there was no reaction.)
Thursday, April 7, 2016, 12:14:02 PM, jean-frederic clere wrote: > 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 >>>>> >>>>> >>> >> > > -- Thanks, Daniel Dekany
