Hi Vincent, Came back from home just yesterday, what is the status of releasing XEclipse ?
My final semester started from today. I might not be able to contribute a lot during this period, but I will keep in touch for sure. Thanks. - Asiri On 10/18/07, Vincent Massol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Oct 16, 2007, at 10:36 AM, Fabio Mancinelli wrote: > > > > > On Oct 15, 2007, at 6:25 PM, Vincent Massol wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> The XEclipse 1.0M2 release was supposed to be done on the 8th of > >> October but since I was on a trip I wasn't able to do it. > >> > >> We need to replan its release. > >> > >> Since Fabio has started working on it I'd like to know when we can > >> release it? > >> > > I did a bit of "high level" refactoring on XEclipse that only touched > > the surface (already committed). > > > > I didn't go deeper because I would have broken the current build and > > I think that low level changes are quite difficult to accommodate in > > the current XEclipse structure. > > > > In particular the caching logic should be revised because this is a > > very sensible feature for the product and it should be as clean and > > maintainable as possible and, of course, well tested. I am spending > > some time on it trying factor it out as a separate component and I'll > > post a version to be peer-reviewed soon. > > ok cool. > > > There are some other things to be revised and, as I wrote in a > > previous email, they are basically features that are not written > > having in mind the "Eclipse-way" of doing things. But these are minor > > changes and some of them have already been done. > > > > So, to return to the release date issue, we could release XEclipse > > 1.0M2 as it is now, and plan another release with the all the > > refactorings in 2 weeks (let's say monday 29) > > > > WDYT? > > +1, let's do it. I need to try the new conflict warning feature > though. Has anyone verified it works? > > Ping me on irc when you're ready to release XEclipse 1.0M2. > > >> Fabio, would you be interested in being the Release Manager for > >> XEclipse and in doing the release of XEclipse 1.0M2 (I can explain to > >> you how to do it)? > >> > > Yes, I would be glad to do it! > > cooool :) > > > As a side note: we should spend some time trying to figure out how to > > integrate maven with PDE builds. Currently XEclipse is built as a > > single plugin and this could not be enough. If we want to build it > > (also) as a standalone RCP application (as the one I gave to some of > > you), possibly made of different plugins (e.g., xeclipse.core, > > xeclipse.ui) with a reference target platform that should also be > > made available through the maven repository to developers, we will > > need to fiddle a little bit with all of this because, as you already > > know, maven and PDE are not very good friends :( > > I've used the maven PDE plugin from > http://mojo.codehaus.org/pde-maven-plugin/ > > I think it supports plugins, features and products. See > http://mojo.codehaus.org/pde-maven-plugin/examples/simple_product.html > > Is a "product" the same as an RCP application? > > Do you think you could work on modifying the maven build so that we > can release both an RCP application and a plugin? > > Thanks > -Vincent > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > devs@xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >
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