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Re: [ve-dev] Why do you avoid answering about the status of the project?
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Hi Serhiy,
Aplogies for the silence on the mailing
list. The project is stalled right now for a number of reasons
that look like they're slowly, and finally, unwinding.
First, is that on 3.3 (Europa) a component
called JEM that we share with the WTP team broke because code it pre-req'd
changed. WTP very kindly stepped the code up to 3.3, which involved
a bit of churn to move it to a new repository. This is the reason
that people who check code out were seeing things like "org.eclipse.ve.jem...
not found" and so forth, because we didn't anticipate the configuration
problems this would cause. Hopefully they're fixed now.
Second, now that WTP have stepped JEM
up to 3.3 it means that it makes sense to look at stepping VE up to 3.3.
It is also a good time to look at injecting new talent into the VE
team and I've been off-list talking to a number of people about becoming
new commiters and getting involved in the project. Steve Robenalt
has been through the process of becoming a new committer, which is reallygreat
as he brings a lot of knowledge and enthusiasm to the project, and he and
one other commiter have been looking at the work required to step VE up
to 3.3.
The next step is to get to the point
where we can start releasing 3.3 code into the HEAD stream in CVS. There
are a few things to do before this can occur but once we get these resolved
then what we need to do is get a 3.3 VE build.
As an aside, VE has multiple personalities,
one is for people who want out of the box GUI building for Java toolkits,
of which it supports AWT/Swing/SWT/EclipseForms and there is stuff that
works for RCP views and editor parts. This is kind of "Visual Basic"
experience, or the Matisse peer. The second alter ego of VE is for
the person who wants to extend the framework to do cool stuff like add
new widget, new layout managers, new persistence formats (like XML rather
than Java) or new wiget toolkits such as mobile Java and so forth. VE has
current customers who do both tasks. Going forward once the 3.3 stuff
is out of the way, I'm really keen to see people on this newsgoup try to
decide what the future path of VE should be in terms of it being a GUI
builder vs. a framework for GUI builders that provides an implementation
for various Java toolkits. This would affect things like how much
of the API gets written up, whether effort is spent doing tutorials, presentations
and so forth on how to leverage the VE through plugins and so forth, or
whether VE should support things like RCP preference pages, dialogs, wizards,
mutli page editor part building and such.
Best regards,
Joe
"Serhiy Veryovka"
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Hello,
Guys, there are few messages in the mailing list about the status of the
Visual Editor project.
But no replays...
There is nothing strange that there are a lot of questions about the status
of the project because it seems that there is no code commits to the project
and no updates for a very long time.
Could you please tell people what is happening with the project and will
there be any new release ever?
Thanks,
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