I hope everything is going fine... Stuck with final year project....
Way to go XEclipse!!! :) - Asiri On Nov 1, 2007 5:53 AM, Fabio Mancinelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >
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