Hi all!
Now that, for reasons still unknown to mere mortals like me, many
people seem to move from XCode to WOLips, I thought about how to make
Eclipse/WOLips more appealing to new users. There are a couple of
issues/quirks/leftovers that we oldtimers don't really notice
anymore, or know how to work around, but which might be confusing to
newcomers.
So I made a list of (mostly small) issues. But before I come to that
something more important.
We need an official stable release. That means, we need to declare at
some point that we are feature complete, make a svn branch and from
then on only do bugfixing in there (no more "I updated today, and
nothing works anymore" :) And finally, release the thing officially
as version 2.0.1 or something. Development of version 2.1 can
continue in the main branch.
Here is my list:
- WOLips perspective defines no friends. Window->Open Perspective
only shows "Other...". Should show something like the Java
perspective and also include Java.
- launch configuration: clicking checkboxes in the Log and WO Tab in
doesn't enable Apply button
- tree view in classpath container dialog: selecting frameworks in
the tree view doesn't display the "partially selected" icon for the
parent (eg. System always shows up as empty)
- Remove the old classpath container (not completely, some people
might still be using it, but at least from the New Library dialog.
- Make javadoc work with the new one :)
- Preferences->WOLips->Launch contains "!
LaunchPreferencesPage.description!"
- classpath container dialog: The "Exported" checkbox cannot be set.
And some help which might be needed:
- Preferences->WOLips->Build: What is "Build after JavaBuilder"? I
have it enabled, and don't know what happens if I turn it off or if
thats even something anyone would ever do. It not, remove the button.
- same page: there used to be a "Write PB.project" on build, which is
gone now. Is this always enabled? If so, why it there a "Update
PB.project" in the context menu? Also my collegue (on Windows) says
this doesn't work reliably.
- What is the ProjectBuilder Server, and what happens if I turn it
off? Something Windows specific?
and finally:
- The icon! Where is the one from Mikes t-shirt? That looked so nice...
What do you think? Does any of this sound worthwhile to do? Anything
to add? I could invest some time to look into these...
Marc
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