From: <jav...@mi...> - 2009-01-30 19:09:03
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Thanks, I am so glad someone got around to replacing the intro. I have no experience of the Universal Intro but it is clearly the way to go. I have a concern about the help system, though. I understand that it does not work when an RCP app. is started using WebStart because the Tomcat server cannot be installed. Perhaps that is old news and has now been resolved. However, having said that, I am playing around with Equinox p2. I am doing this principally because my employer has serious deployment problems which I am expecting Equinox p2 to solve. But I did try it out with JMoney last week and it seemed to work. I would like to use it as the way we deploy JMoney to end-users. This would certainly solve any problems with the help system. However, I am not sure quite how to put together the installer UI. Do we want it to be completely silent, or should it ask a few simple questions such as 'do you want the stocks plug-in', or 'do you already have a shared bundle pool that contains Eclipse bundles so that these are not downloaded again'? Once installed, do we want to expose the UI provided by Equinox p2 which will allow rollbacks to previous states and stuff like that, or is that too complicated for end-users? Nigel > -------Original Message------- > From: Johann Gyger <jo...@gy...> > Subject: [jmoney-devel] Universal intro and help plugin > Sent: 29 Jan '09 22:17 > > Hi, > > I revamped the existing intro and turned it into a universal intro > which is referring to the help. An initial help structure has been > created in a new plug-in named net.sf.jmoney.help. > > Cheers, > Johann > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by: > SourcForge Community > SourceForge wants to tell your story. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword > _______________________________________________ > jmoney-devel mailing list > jmo...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmoney-devel > |
From: Johann G. <jo...@gy...> - 2009-01-30 22:49:59
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Nigel, Equinox p2 is definitely the way to go, although I'm not experienced with it. Do you know if Sourceforge supports this way of deploying software? Or do we need some other hosting for the plug-ins? Regarding your installer UI questions: What about providing a default installation _and_ an expert installation? This way the user has full control. He can select everything customized to his needs or he can keep it simple if he just wants to try out JMoney? --Johann On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 20:08, <jav...@mi...> wrote: > Thanks, I am so glad someone got around to replacing the intro. I have no experience of the Universal Intro but it is clearly the way to go. > > I have a concern about the help system, though. I understand that it does not work when an RCP app. is started using WebStart because the Tomcat server cannot be installed. Perhaps that is old news and has now been resolved. > > However, having said that, I am playing around with Equinox p2. I am doing this principally because my employer has serious deployment problems which I am expecting Equinox p2 to solve. But I did try it out with JMoney last week and it seemed to work. I would like to use it as the way we deploy JMoney to end-users. This would certainly solve any problems with the help system. However, I am not sure quite how to put together the installer UI. Do we want it to be completely silent, or should it ask a few simple questions such as 'do you want the stocks plug-in', or 'do you already have a shared bundle pool that contains Eclipse bundles so that these are not downloaded again'? Once installed, do we want to expose the UI provided by Equinox p2 which will allow rollbacks to previous states and stuff like that, or is that too complicated for end-users? > > Nigel > > >> -------Original Message------- >> From: Johann Gyger <jo...@gy...> >> Subject: [jmoney-devel] Universal intro and help plugin >> Sent: 29 Jan '09 22:17 >> >> Hi, >> >> I revamped the existing intro and turned it into a universal intro >> which is referring to the help. An initial help structure has been >> created in a new plug-in named net.sf.jmoney.help. >> >> Cheers, >> Johann >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> This SF.net email is sponsored by: >> SourcForge Community >> SourceForge wants to tell your story. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword >> _______________________________________________ >> jmoney-devel mailing list >> jmo...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmoney-devel >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by: > SourcForge Community > SourceForge wants to tell your story. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword > _______________________________________________ > jmoney-devel mailing list > jmo...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmoney-devel > |