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On 9 Apr 2016 23:33 +0200, Daniel Dekany<[email protected]>, wrote: > 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 >
