On 16 December 2010 17:09, Ratnadeep Debnath <rtn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Mat Booth <fed...@matbooth.co.uk> wrote: >> I have been using eclipse-fedorapackager for a while now and it works >> quite well, thanks for the effort that has gone into it. >> > > +1 > >> My life revolves around Eclipse at my day job so using this plug-in >> wasn't a leap, but I've found that many people who aren't developers >> find Eclipse quite an overly large and intimidating product so maybe a >> little RCP app would be quite neat for people who don't need a full >> blown IDE. :-) >> > > That is what I am also thinking. As it was said earlier, that a stand > alone version for Fedora Eclipse Packager can be made, we should start > working on that. The code already exists for the backend. We can > design a GUI with gtk+ and put all the features in a simple to use > interface. >
Well, the GUI already exists as an Eclipse IDE plug-in, my suggestion was to just turn that into an Eclipse Rich Client Platform application (read up on Eclipse RCP to see what I mean.) I believe that is also what Chris Aniszczyk hinted at. There's really no need to redesign it from scratch! -- Mat Booth http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
