On 04/07/2016 10:46 AM, jean-frederic clere wrote:
> On 04/07/2016 01:32 AM, Daniel Dekany wrote:
>> I'm not sure what do you mean. The latest version is always here, but
>> I can't tell users to build it themselves:
>> https://github.com/ddekany/jbosstools-freemarker/tree/merged
>
> hm I think I will ask my jbosstools colleagues how to go forward. My
> understanding is that they pick eclispe stuff and later put it in the
> our IDE.
Actually they would be quite happy to help, joining
https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jbosstools-dev asking there and
following their instructions should be enough. We should get a commit
and then nightly build of the plugins easily.
Cheers
Jean-Frederic
>
> Cheers
>
> Jean-Frederic
>
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>>
>> Thursday, April 7, 2016, 1:24:40 AM, John D. Ament wrote:
>>
>>> What if you just push eclipse plugins and skip jboss ide?
>>> On Apr 6, 2016 19:22, "Daniel Dekany" <ddekany@freemail.hu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Someone could still figure out if we can legally offer our own JBoss
>>>> FreeMarker IDE build for download, and how is it best to distribute
>>>> (like should we host our own update site somewhere?).
>>>>
>>>> Why? As I have said earlier, FreeMarker IDE fixes get into JBoss IDE
>>>> releases with quite big delay. Like I have some 4 months old pull
>>>> requests, quite simple ones, but none of them is merged in yet. I have
>>>> asked about it, and was told that maybe they will find time reviewing
>>>> them for the JBoss IDE release for Eclipse Neon. I guess that will be
>>>> a few more months. So, we could release updates with a half a year
>>>> less delay or such, which is clearly significant.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Monday, September 28, 2015, 12:10:08 AM, Daniel Dekany wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> So it's on http://freemarker.org/contribute.html, but...
>>>>>
>>>>> - I just want to emphasize that it's quite important for the success
>>>>> of the project. People need to edit the templates with something,
>>>>> and efficiently. For you convenience, the pending Jira issues:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-20512?jql=project%20%3D%20JBIDE%20AND%20status%20in%20%28Open%2C%20%22Coding%20In%20Progress%22%2C%20Reopened%2C%20%22Pull%20Request%20Sent%22%29%20AND%20component%20%3D%20freemarker
>>>>>
>>>>> - You can help even if you aren't into Eclipse plugin development! A
>>>>> problem is currently that the release of the plugin seems to be
>>>>> bound to the release of the JBoss Tools project which is very
>>>>> infrequent for our purpose. Maybe the fixes should just be
>>>>> back-ported into the previous JBoss Tools branch too solve that, and
>>>>> that's not done, but I really don't know. In any case, currently,
>>>>> FreeMarker IDE release cycles are way too slow [*]. A solution for
>>>>> this should be figured out, and discussed with the JBoss Tools guys.
>>>>> Like, just as an example, maybe we should set up our own plugin
>>>>> update site, and do the builds ourselves, but then legal issues has
>>>>> to be considered, and if that could interfere with the JBoss Tools
>>>>> installation of the users.
>>>>>
>>>>> *: For example, I have asked to increase the FreeMarker version in
>>>>> 2.3.23. And sure it was done in the repo quickly (thanks to Denis
>>>>> Golovin who has also squashed several FreeMarker IDE bugs), but
>>>>> it's scheduled for JBoss Tools 4.4.0. That, I guess, is about 12
>>>>> months away! Until that, FreeMarker IDE won't handle the new
>>>>> features of 2.3.23, which was released months ago. Or, FreeMarker
>>>>> IDE was pretty much unusably broken in 4.2.0. Months ago, it was
>>>>> fixed, and now its quite usable. Big difference. But for most user
>>>>> that will only become visible in 4.3.0, which is has only entered
>>>>> CR1 state not very long ago. Now, it all could be kind of OK, if
>>>>> there were JBoss IDE dependencies in FreeMarker IDE, or the other
>>>>> way around, but as far as I see there's pretty much none. So
>>>>> technically FreeMarker IDE could be released independently.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Daniel Dekany
>>>>
>>>>
>>
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