Re: [amalgam-dev] Amalgam discovery

[Cédric Brun <cedric.brun@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Ed,

thanks for the ping, looks like my Mylyn query is not perfect yet, I'm
afraid I completely missed this bug.

Adding a comment right away.

Cheers,

Cédric

Le 23/05/2010 15:36, Ed Willink a écrit :
> Hi Cedric
>
> I thought I saw, but can't find, a recent email from you announcing
> that things were now in place for EPP RC1 Modeling Discovery. However
> I don't see either MDT/OCL or M2M/QVTd in
> http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/amalgam/downloads/discovery/helios/modeling.xmi
> as requested in Bug 311214.
>
>     Regards
>
>         Ed
>
>
> On 15/04/2010 08:54, Cédric Brun wrote:
>> Hi Ed,
>>
>> Thanks for your feedback.
>>
>> The plan is to make this UI visible through the welcome page, just like
>> you suggested :)
>>
>> If you want QVTd to be part of the discovery ui, I can fire a bug and
>> you'll be able to provide me the required information from it.
>>
>> As for the examples I think it deserves a whole discussion but we could
>> figure a way for people to discover examples not necessarily including
>> them in their installation : having the same kind of UI which will
>> install the required dependencies *and* checkout the code from
>> CVS/SVN/Git. This could probably be part of the Helios +1 release but
>> I'd like to get the modeling PMC feedback about this.
>>
>> Cédric
>>
>> Le 14/04/2010 08:48, Ed Willink a écrit :
>>   
>>> Hi Cedric
>>>
>>> Amalgam is providing some useful functionality, but it's all a bit
>>> secret...
>>>
>>> I needed to use Alt-Shift-F1 to confirm that  the Modeling Discovery
>>> UI is an Amalgam contribution.
>>>
>>> Searching for Modeling Discovery on the wiki reveled no obvious
>>> mention of amalgam. The amalgam project pages refer to the Ganymede
>>> release train.
>>> -- 
>>> I just used the Modeling Discovery UI to install Xtext; very good UI
>>> once you find it. (I only discovered it after a mention at EclipseCon
>>> caused me to ask you).
>>>
>>> It would probably help a bit if the Welcome page had an additional
>>> prominent icon advertising the Modeling Discovery UI. (use the
>>> org.eclipse.ui.intro.configExtension extension point.)
>>>
>>> It might also be good to have Help->Modeling Discovery UI... adjacent
>>> to Help->Install New Software...
>>>
>>> Contrasting "Modeling Discovery UI" with "Install New Software",
>>> "Modeling Discovery UI" is a good name describing the technical
>>> implementation but a bad name from the user's perspective. Perhaps
>>> "Install Modeling Software".
>>> ---
>>> Anyway, I'm trying to find out what is necessary for M2M/QVTd and
>>> MDT/OCL Examples to install via the discovery UI.
>>>
>>> Is visibility achieved by application to you?
>>>
>>> I would like to be able to discover:
>>>      Platform examples
>>>      EMF Core examples
>>>      MDT/OCL examples
>>>      M2M/QVTd
>>>
>>>      Regards
>>>
>>>          Ed Willink
>>>
>>>
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