RE: [linux-distros-dev] PHPeclipse 1.1.8 rpm

["Philippe Ombredanne" <pombredanne@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ben:
no worries.
Ben Konrath wrote:
> Normally I'm all for pushing patches upstream but in this 
> case I get the
> impression that phpeclipse is not under active development - the
> developers were unresponsive when I asked for help in getting a 1.1.8
> source release when public cvs at sourceforge was down, they 
> haven't cut
> a 3.2 release yet and the source seems to be unmaintained (a 
> whole bunch
> of code just commented out rather than removed). 
Yeah... that has been the case for now. What I am doing is I am going to
make those cleanups and apply those patches of yours to the tree.
I am a committer there now.
And I possibly will *try* to come with a way that makes phpeclipse more
linux friendly based on your "linux oriented" later two patches.


> But don't get me wrong here. I don't think PHPeclipse is all 
> that bad, I
> just have to justify that the time I spend working on something is
> worthwhile. In this case I'm not sure is right now 
> considering I'm *way*
> behind on my Fedora obligations.
No sweat, as I said, I am not asking you to do anything, I am just
telling that your patches look cool, and I will apply them.
And I'll try to make sure we have a decent source drop for phpeclipse
going forward.
Which could mean that for the next version, your build would be vastly
simpler :-)

And as a by-product of applying that patch, I'll try to come with some
simple guidelines (which probably will seem obvious to everyone on that
list) that would help aspiring plugins developers make sure that what
they are developing is linux friendly.


-- 
Cheers
Philippe

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Konrath [mailto:bkonrath@xxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 1:08 PM
> To: Philippe Ombredanne
> Cc: linux-distros-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [linux-distros-dev] PHPeclipse 1.1.8 rpm
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 10:47 -0700, Philippe Ombredanne wrote:
> > Ben you wrote:
> > > I'm not sure that's a good idea because I didn't make the 
> patches with
> > > the intention of them working with non-linux systems. 
> Specifically, I
> > > just blindly removed the win32 help stuff and the XAMPP 
> > > stuff. IMO it's
> > > not worth the effort to make these patches work with linux 
> > > and non-linux
> > > systems. 
> > IMHO, it would be a little work and actually a good thing in several
> > ways:
> > - for phpeclipse, making sure the plugins are linux friendly
> > - but more than that, for this project, come with a set of simple
> > guidelines that can help plugin developers everywhere 
> create consistenly
> > linux friendly code. 
> > In the case of the win32help, it can be as simple as 
> extracting win32
> > related extensions in a fragment with platform filters that 
> would only
> > make it activate on win32.
> > 
> > Would not that fit well here?
> 
> Normally I'm all for pushing patches upstream but in this 
> case I get the
> impression that phpeclipse is not under active development - the
> developers were unresponsive when I asked for help in getting a 1.1.8
> source release when public cvs at sourceforge was down, they 
> haven't cut
> a 3.2 release yet and the source seems to be unmaintained (a 
> whole bunch
> of code just commented out rather than removed). 
> 
> But don't get me wrong here. I don't think PHPeclipse is all 
> that bad, I
> just have to justify that the time I spend working on something is
> worthwhile. In this case I'm not sure is right now 
> considering I'm *way*
> behind on my Fedora obligations.
> 
> Cheers, Ben
>