RE: [stellation-res] *Important* Eclipse version question for the gang

["Jonathan Gossage" <jgossage@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mark -- see embedded replies

> -----Original Message-----
> From: stellation-res-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:stellation-res-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Mark C.
> Chu-Carroll
> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 10:01 PM
> To: Stellation-res
> Subject: [stellation-res] *Important* Eclipse version question for the
> gang
>
>
>
> Folks:
>
> I'm currently working on finishing the non-CLI-based Stellation
> client plugin. I've been looking at what's going on in the R3 stream,
> and I need to decide whether to target R2 or R3.
>
> R3 is changing a lot of APIs, and exposing a bunch of really nice new
> functionality. But it is relatively unstable - the new APIs are
> going to change over time.
>
> The big differences that I've noticed so far:
>
> - There is a new synch view. Much more of the sync and merge machinery
>   is API now, and the new merge stuff is *very* nifty.
>
> - The three-way-merge view is now API.
>
> - There is a very nice in-line diff thing using sidebar shading
>   to show changes in a file - we could do *really* cool stuff with the
>   new task service and that sidebar shading support.
>
> - The build support is *much* better. We can use Eclipse machinery
>   to do a complete build of Stellation, and produce a packaged
>   product.
>
> - There is support for scripting actions in Javascript. (And, I
>   suspect that that scripting machinery will be easy to hijack for
>   other Java-friendly scripting languages like Jython.) This means
>   that we can provide triggers in script!
>
> The question that I'm putting forward is this: is it worth jumping over
> to the R3 stuff, even though that will make it harder for some users
> until R3 stabilizes? Or should we stick with R2, which gives us the
> larger user base,  even though some things will have to be omitted for
> now, or rewritten when R3 comes out?

How close is the client plugin and how close to desired functionality is it?
Unless you are almost there, I think you should consider developing to the
R3 target. I have been using it for a while and have experienced no
problems.

>
> If you want to chat about it, I'll be on IRC at Freenode.net #stellation
> starting about 9:30 tomorrow morning. If you want to discuss on-list,
> please post as soon as you can. I'd like to get a decision on this
> quickly. (We've got some demos coming up, and we need to finish some
> of this for it, so time is of the essence.)

I have absolutely no experience with IRC and have no idea how to set this up
under Windows so I will stick to the list for the time being.

Regards

Jonathan Gossage

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