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Newbie question: Simple Generator creation question [message #850930]

Fri, 20 April 2012 13:30

Alain Lavoie

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Registered: April 2012

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Hi,

I am using the latest Acceleo 3.2 eclipse software, retrieved from the
Help->"Install model components".

I am using the Tutorial Acceleo 2.6: Architect Tutorial.
As the tutorial drives me to create a generator file (xhtml.mt),
I cannot find the File > New > Empty Generator, or any Generator similar
menu items.

What changed in the Acceleo since the tutorial release, or am I missing a plugin ?

Thanks

(Merci)

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Re: Newbie question: Simple Generator creation question [message #850964 is a reply to message #850930]

Fri, 20 April 2012 14:04

Laurent Goubet

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Registered: July 2009

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Hi Alain,

The latest 3.x stream of Acceleo is way too different from the "old" 2.x stream to re-use the same documentation. Please use the material available from the Eclipse wiki for documentation on Acceleo 3, most notably the Getting Started guide.

Laurent Goubet
Obeo

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Re: Newbie question: Simple Generator creation question [message #850977 is a reply to message #850964]

Fri, 20 April 2012 14:21

Alain Lavoie

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Thanks.

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Re: Newbie question: Simple Generator creation question [message #855424 is a reply to message #850964]

Tue, 24 April 2012 20:20

Alain Lavoie

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Registered: April 2012

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Hi again,

Because of stability issues I switched from the Eclipse Modeling MDT
distribution to the latest Topcased integrated environment.
The Acceleo distributed with this bundle is Acceleo 2.8.0.x

Should I try to upgrade to the versions 3.0.x or doing so,
I will unstabilize my platform ?

Regards.

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Re: Newbie question: Simple Generator creation question [message #857333 is a reply to message #855424]

Thu, 26 April 2012 13:11

Laurent Goubet

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Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi,

hummm ... IIRC, Topcased also includes a version of Acceleo 3 (for the purposes of GenDoc2). I don't know how it is bundled though.

There are no incompatibilities between the two streams of Acceleo : they use different namespaces. You can have the two in your environment with no problems. You will see menu items named "Acceleo" that can refer to either of the two and will probably have to resort to trial and error to find those corresponding to the 3.x stream ... but that is all I can think of.

Laurent Goubet
Obeo

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