22 Oct
2007
22 Oct
'07
5:06 p.m.
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 <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote:
On Oct 16, 2007, at 10:36 AM, Fabio Mancinelli wrote:
cooool :)
On Oct 15, 2007, at 6:25 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
ok cool.
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. 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! 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
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