Re: [Erlide-devel] Eclipse Plug-in Development

2013-02-04 Thread Vlad Dumitrescu
Thanks Christopher, Good thing you pointed that out, sometimes I forget that the basics of Eclipse development aren't really basic :-) /Vlad On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 8:48 PM, Christopher Svanefalk < [email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Tarek Nabil wro

Re: [Erlide-devel] Eclipse Plug-in Development

2013-02-04 Thread Vlad Dumitrescu
Hi, You don't need to know about Buckminster. It is used on the build server and the idea is that it starts an Eclipse instance and uses the plugins installed in it to compile the code. The main reason this is easier than using Ant is that we use an older verion of erlide to compile the Erlang cod

Re: [Erlide-devel] Eclipse Plug-in Development

2013-02-04 Thread Christopher Svanefalk
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Tarek Nabil wrote: > Hi again, > > I've never really done Eclipse plug-in development before, so that was my > first introduction to Buckminster. It seems to be too complex for the > simple needs of application development, so maybe that's why it's not very > well

[Erlide-devel] Eclipse Plug-in Development

2013-02-04 Thread Tarek Nabil
Hi again, I've never really done Eclipse plug-in development before, so that was my first introduction to Buckminster. It seems to be too complex for the simple needs of application development, so maybe that's why it's not very well known outside the Eclipse and OSGi communities. I read a quick

Re: [Erlide-devel] Eclipse Version

2013-02-04 Thread Vlad Dumitrescu
Hi! The target environment is the oldest Eclipse release the we are supporting. It's going to become 3.7 soon. There is a big difference between 3.x and 4.x Eclipse APIs, but 4.x can still run plugins for 3.x with the help of a compatibility layer. You still need to have a 3.x Eclipse installatio

[Erlide-devel] Eclipse Version

2013-02-04 Thread Tarek Nabil
Hi, I was checking out the wiki and found that it mentions that the "target" environment is Eclipse 3.6. I didn't really get what is meant by "target" here. Does it mean that Erlide needs to run on 3.6? I have 4.2 installed but there's a word of caution about it on the wiki as well. Do I need to