[news.eclipse.modeling.gmf] Re: [Announce] GMF 2.2.0 I200901150958 is av

[Mariot Chauvin <mariot.chauvin@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Julia,

On the copyright item, I think this Ed answer for EMF could apply too to GMF : http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.tools.emf/msg19267.html

Regards,

Mariot

Cayla Sha a écrit :
> Hello!
> 
> So now I`m really nearly ready with my editor (in the meantime my client
>  had some "great" new ideas what my editor should do...)
> 
> I was able to create a feature- and a site-project and now I can install
> my plugin on eclipse :D
> 
> I have just three issues left:
> 1. when I add my site-project as an update-site, it looks like this:
> * file:/....<Path to site project>
>     * Uncategorized
>         * <My Editor Name>
> Where comes this "Uncategorized" from?
> In the site-project I defined a category for the feature.
> 
> 2. when I run my Editor the icons in the toolbar aren`t shown. The icons
> must be there, because everywhere else (on the property view, on the
> project explorer-view) I can see them. But where are the icons on the
> toolbar? Is this a known issue? Any ideas why of all things only the
> icons in the toolbar aren`t working?
> 
> 3. what text should I write into the Copyright- and License-Text? For
> the code I wrote myself the copyright is of course on me. But on a
> GMF-project most of the code is generated by GMF, and in my plugin is a
> lot of stuff included like other plugins and packages.
> I already searched on the web, but didn`t find anything helpful, no
> example-text or something like that. Just general descriptions on "what
> is copyright" and so on.
> 
> Can anyone help me?
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Best wishes
> Julia
> 
> 
> 
> Tobias schrieb:
>> Hello Cayla,
>>
>> for the second question: You should create a Plugin-Feature-Project
>> and a Plugin-Site-Project. In the Feature you have to list your three
>> plugins and the dependencies (e.g. GMF runtime); you can also provide
>> some more information here, like copyright stuff. Then you can use the
>> Site Project to create jars from your projects. These jars can then be
>> distributed into the plugin/ and feature/ directory of an eclipse
>> installation, or the plugins can be installed by using the (possibly
>> archived) Site Project as an update site.
>>
>> Tobias
>>
>>
>>
>> Cayla Sha schrieb:
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> I never updated GMF and I`m thinking about, if I should do that.
>>> But I`m really scared, that my GMF-editor will not work anymore after
>>> an update. Could that happen?
>>>
>>> I have the following packages installed:
>>> - Graphical Modeling Framework Runtime, 1.1.0.v20080223....
>>> - Graphical Modeling Framework SDK, 2.2.1.v20080501-1739-....
>>>
>>> But my editor-plugin is nearly ready, so if someone else will install
>>> my editor he will install the newest version of GMF...
>>>
>>>
>>> By the way, I have another question: When I`m ready with my editor,
>>> do I have to "pack" it in any way? Or will I distribute the 3
>>> project-packages as they are to the users? But aren`t there some
>>> files with eclipse-project-specific information? Do I have to delete
>>> them?
>>>
>>> And how do the users install my plugin? They will not import them as
>>> a project into the eclipse-workspace, right? But how?
>>>
>>> How do the users know which other plugins (e.g. the GMF-Runtime) do
>>> they have to install? Do I have to tell 'em?
>>>
>>> I tried to find information about the "GMF project ending" over
>>> google but there was no useful information.
>>>
>>>
>>> Best wishes
>>> Julia