Running fine on Linux (Mandriva). The application is great!

Stéphane


Fabio Mancinelli wrote:
> I am resending this because yesterday it didn't come through...
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I've been working on the refactoring of XEclipse and it is almost  
> ready for release.
> 
> There are several high and low level enhancements:
> 
> 1) The UI has been partially rewritten by leveraging Eclipse framework  
> APIs.
> Things now are a lot simpler at the code level. There are also some UI  
> restyling to make it nicer/more functional.
> 
> 2) Offline support has been rewritten and now it works fine. It  
> seamlessly caches pages, and detects conflicts when there
> have been remote modifications. The offline API is pretty simple and  
> well documented and should allow for future extensions hopefully  
> without too many problems (e.g., using an embedded XWiki as cache  
> storage).
> 
> 4) An Eclipse RCP shell for building and using XEclipse as a  
> standalone application has been added.
> 
> There are still some minor things missing like commands for creating/ 
> removing pages/spaces and some editor-synchronization logic. But this  
> is easy to implement and I'll do it tomorrow. Some documentation of  
> non-critical parts is also missing.
> 
> I would say that we can schedule a release on Monday.
> 
> In the meanwhile I invite you to build your own copy of XEclipse and  
> try it out.
> In order to compile XEclipse do the following:
> 
> 1) cd TEMP_DIR; svn co 
> http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/xwiki-extensions/xwiki-eclipse/trunk/ 
>   xeclipse
> 2) Download xeclipse-target-platform.tar.gz [1] from 
> http://www.xwiki.org/fabio/xeclipse-target-platform.tar.gz 
>   and unpack it in TEMP_DIR/xeclipse
> 3) Go to TEMP_DIR/xeclipse/plugins/org.xwiki.xeclipse.rcp and follow  
> the instructions in README.maven
> 
> At the end of the process you should obtain a .zip with XEclipse  
> compiled and packaged for your platform.
> Unzip it wherever you want and launch the XEclipse binary.
> 
> Cheers,
> Fabio
> 
> [1] This is of course a temporary location. Probably the target  
> platform will be moved to the maven repository and downloaded directly  
> from there by tweaking a bit the pom.xml
> 
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