[news.eclipse.technology.epf] Re: RichText (EPF milestone 1.2.0.4)

[Eric Rizzo <eclipse-news@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alexander Shterev wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I did some research on how to integrate the RichText-Editor in a 
> separate RCP application, but I still have some questions. I found only 
> one thread in the newsgroups and one feature request in the bug tracker, 
> so if I missed anything, feel free to redirect me to the right page/thread.
> As far as this thread is concerned 
> (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=209373), the RTE can now 
> be included separately as a standalone feature/plugin.
>
> # Is there any tutorial on how this should be done?
> I could extract the feature and he plugins from this milestone build to 
> deploy my own RTE plugin. This, however, invokes an issue about updating 
> and future maintenance.

If you have the RichText stand-alone feature in your dev/target 
environment, you can specify it on the Included Features tab of your 
product's feature.xml. That will cause the product export process to 
include that feature and its plugins in your exported product.

> # Is is planned to deploy EPF as a set of Eclipse features on an Update 
> site, so that a simple dependency could solve this problem?

I've asked about an update site before and was met with remarkable 
silence. Perhaps opening a bug report would trigger some action on that 
front...

> # Tom Schindl writes 
> (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=209373#c8) that the 
> editor now works fine with MacOS. Has anyone tested the new version on a 
> Mac because the code was a bit refactored since this post?

The Stand-alone feature is specified so that it won't install or load on 
OS X, so I don't think it can even be tested without hacking the feature 
and/or plug manifests or XML.

Eric