Re: [stellation-res] Prodlems attempting to run Stellation Eclipse Plug

[Eric Merritt <cyberlync@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Unfortunately, the Stellation Eclipse client
> currently available from the
> website does not work with the currently-posted
> Stellation server (and does
> not build as currently checked into the CVS
> repository, as you discovered)
> Sorry!   :<
> I'm working full-tilt on a new Eclipse client, which
> will hopefully be
> available next month.  I will update the site to
> make this clear.

 Cool thanks. I got caught on the road for the last
week or so. Sorry about the delay.
 
> There _is_ a functional command-line (CLI) version,
> which we are currently
> using for developing our new Eclipse client, and for
> other development 
> work, and
> the code for this is .... checked into the 
> stellation.eclipse.org
> repository (but not the public Eclipse CVS
> repository). It happened that
> breaking changes were made to the CLI code earlier
> this year, and the
> Eclipse GUI client was not updated.  We've made the
> rather painful decision
> to completely discard the original command-line
> client codebase (designed
> and largely built before we migrated to Eclipse). 

 Ouch that sounds painfull.


> Accordingly, I've built
> and tested a new Eclipse-friendly Stellation 'client
> core', and am now
> overhauling the UI part of the Stellation plugin. 
> Once the UI Plugin
> is working properly with the rest of our current
> codebase, we'll post new
> drops.


Cool
 
> If you're interested in helping us develop
> Stellation, we can certainly get
> the code to you sooner. At present, we're not
> actively supporting the old
> code base (since a chunk of it is going away).

 Depends. What do you need help with?
 
> Information about our current plans and activities
> is available on our Wiki 
> site.
> Of particular note:
> 

http://stellation.eclipse.org/twiki/bin/view/Stellation/EclipseClient
> describes the "transitional" Eclipse client I'm
> working on now.

Cool. ok.

http://stellation.eclipse.org/twiki/bin/view/Stellation/CurrentPlans
> describes our current plans.

 Ok.

> Sorry for not responding sooner (I'm in heads-down
> coding mode at present).
> And please, let us know if you're interested in
> getting involved (lots to do)!
> 

 No problem. Maybe I can help.

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