On 09:38:08 pm Thursday, December 16, 2010 Mat Booth wrote: > 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!
I just have to add that if someone tries to make it from scratch he will have to write a Git GUI and will lose all possible bugzilla integration(which can be made quite easy thanks to Eclipse Mylyn). Regards, Alex -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
