Re: [xwiki-devs] XEclipse 1.0M2 new release date

On Oct 15, 2007, at 6:25 PM, Vincent Massol wrote: 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.

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?

Yes, I would be glad to do it!

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 :(