RE: [Eclipsedotnet-developers] Project status report

[Kunle O. <kun...@vi...>]

> OK, this mailing list has been very quiet lately (too quiet, IMHO).

;-)

> So, I think a kind-of status report is in order here (it 
> would be useful for archives, for one).
> 
> 
> David and Rui have been developing some plugins for 
> Eclipse.NET (related to ProjectIT-Studio, about which you can 
> read in the paper I made available in the docs_platform CVS 
> repository module). Although these plugins do not directly 
> contribute to the Eclipse.NET project, they allow us to test (and
> correct) various aspects of the platform.

Cool.

> On my part, I have been working on some other plugins: GEF 
> (Graphical Editing Framework) and EMF (Eclipse Modelling 
> Framework). GEF because I believe a graphical modelling 
> framework will be very important (if not
> fundamental) to a wide acceptance of the platform by other 
> developers (and, let's face it, we need other - non-platform 
> - developers if we are to test the platform thoroughly). EMF 
> is also very important because of Eclipse's MDA approach 
> (which, among other things, allows developers to create 
> plugins from a model); also, my topic in my Advanced Topics 
> course is related to MDA and EMF :-P . In the future (after 
> these two are stable in the .NET environment), I think it 
> would be worthwhile to look at GMF (Graphical Modelling 
> Framework), that tries to make a bridge between these two. As 
> anyone who's been monitoring the commits mailing list can 
> see, I haven't made many corrections to the Platform itself, 
> due mostly to lack of time (I have a zillion things to do 
> right now, as Rui and David can testify; and I still have 
> ProjectIT-Studio to make as well...).
> 
> Kunle, from a little "surfing the net" (and some forums), I 
> figure you are trying to implement the OSGi layer in .NET 
> (for use by Eclipse.NET, I assume). If this is so, do you 
> need some help from me (or anyone else)? I could always 
> squeeze some time into developing that layer too. And just 
> out of curiosity, how is that going?

Very slowly. OSGi and .NET don't mesh too well. Too Java-centric it is. I
just wanted a .NET tools platform comparable to Eclipse 3.2+.

> Oh, before I forget: About SVN. SF.net has _finally_ started 
> implementing their SVN repositories, but they will only be 
> available to all projects in mid-2006, I believe (or later). 
> IMHO, this is a lot of time to wait. So, Kunle, is that 
> Eclipse.NET project you registered to Tigris.org to be used 
> (namely, it's SVN repository)?

Maybe. Are we waiting on SF.net's SVN support?


Kunle