Re: [gef-dev] Latest Zest for GEF-classic

[Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Fabian,

I personally would like to avoid adding a Xtext dependency to
GEF-classic. Lots of clients use GEF without XText.
Best regards, Lars

On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 12:22 PM Fabian Steeg <steeg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Alois!
>
> Sorry for the late reply, I was hoping to find some time to look into
> this, but I really can't assess which option would be better here, since
> there seem to be quite a few changes to the Zest code since then.
>
> Also, as a heads up, the Zest 2 changes introduced a dependency on
> Xtext, which back then, if I remember correctly, was one of the reasons
> to release it (only) as part of GEF4, which made major changes anyway.
>
> Cheers,
> Fabian
>
> On 5/17/23 15:44, Alois Zoitl wrote:
> > Hi Fabian,
> >
> > I'm not a Zest user but I find anything that makes GEF Classic better good. Do you think we should backport these changes to GEF Classic's version of ZEST or
> > upgrade GEF Classic's version of ZEST to the one you linked to?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Alois
> >
> > On Thu, 2023-04-20 at 13:48 +0200, Fabian Steeg wrote:
> >> Hi all!
> >>
> >> Triggered by the recent activity in GEF-classic and the wiki.eclipse.org
> >> migration I wanted to mention that the original version of Zest 2 (which
> >> added pruned subgraph rendering, new layout algorithms, Graphviz DOT
> >> support and word cloud visualization) was originally developed for the
> >> GEF3/classic code base. So if there is interest in the community, it
> >> should be possible to integrate that into GEF-classic.
> >>
> >> Some time ago I saved that last GEF3-based state of Zest in
> >> https://github.com/fsteeg/zest, which seems to correspond to [1] in the
> >> gef repo. The latest documentation for that version seems to be here:
> >>
> >> https://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php?title=Zest&oldid=319996
> >> https://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php?title=Zest/DOT&oldid=330938
> >>
> >> (I can't find the original page for the word cloud component, see [2].)
> >>
> >> I enabled notifications for the wiki migration issue [3] and will try to
> >> at least preserve that documentation.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Fabian
> >>
> >> [1]
> >> https://github.com/eclipse/gef/tree/94a47b1df21ca59921acffd7eba442899b5580f1
> >> [2] https://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php?title=Zest/Cloudio&action=history
> >> [3] https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipsefdn/helpdesk/-/issues/681
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