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Re: [Logicmail-devel] Developing
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From: Derek K. <dko...@lo...> - 2009-11-25 22:53:19
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George, I'm glad you wrote, since I can definitely use the help. Right now, I could divide the bulk of the work on the LogicMail code into the following categories: 1 - Death by a thousand papercuts - All these little nitpick issues that you're running into 2 - Development of major features - Offline message caching (active work-in-progress) - Network connection management (will be *much* easier in 5.0) 3 - UI cleanup and polish As someone trying to use the development version in a practical setting, #1 is the highest priority to you, followed sometimes by #3 (because you're on a Storm). As someone trying to make progress on the critical features for 2.0 to meet its goals, #2 is currently the highest priority to me, followed by the occasional bit of #3 (since its easier when I can't concentrate 110%). I basically put aside work on #1 for a while so I could make progress on #2. Now if you could help with all these nitpick issues and ironing out the kinks, that would be enormously helpful to me and the project. I actually have a fairly detailed TO-DO list on a lot of this, and I really should put it online for everyone here to see. (I normally keep it in Tomboy Notes, so I'll either export to HTML or see if they've made any progress with their web-service plans.) Now, as to how to get started... I've recently migrated the source tree to the 1.1 (beta) version of the BlackBerry Eclipse plugin. It works a lot better than the old one. You literally just open the workspace and import the projects, and that's it! None of the weird workarounds on my setup page for the 1.0 plugin. I'll be updating my development setup page sometime soon, but it really is that simple. So your first step is to grab the new Eclipse plugin: http://na.blackberry.com/eng/developers/devbetasoftware/javaplugin.jsp (The download includes a full Eclipse 3.5, so you just need the one file) Once you install it, run all the usual Eclipse updates. Then add the BlackBerry update site: http://www.blackberry.com/go/eclipseUpdate/3.5/java Finally, using that update site, install more BlackBerry SDK versions than just the 5.0 it comes with. I personally installed all of them, but the way my source tree is currently configured, I recommend the following: v4.2, v4.6, v4.7, v5.0 When you're all ready, set your workspace root to whereever you checked out trunk, and import all the projects. The new plugin lets you specify SDK/JDE version on a per-project basis, so I use 4.2.x for anything core, and newer versions for the platform support libraries. (anything ending in a "T" is touchscreen-specific) If you want to test on an OS 5.0 storm, use *all* the projects in your 9500 simulator configuration. (for an OS 5.0 Bold/Curve, everything but the projects ending in "T"... Just remember that all 5.0 simulators run from the same directory, so switching between them could have strange effects if you don't clean things out) (all this will find its way to the project website hopefully by this weekend) Finally, as far as contributing things back goes, the best way is to e-mail me a patch or just the changed source files, and I'll merge it in. As trunk stabilizes, I may eventually do this using tickets (like some of the 1.1 contributions), but I'm not quite there yet. P.S. The automated builds are currently disabled, since I haven't finished updating the build.xml file used for Ant. Ok, this e-mail has gone on long enough for now, so we'll continue the discussion in follow-up e-mails. -Derek On Wednesday 25 November 2009 1:42:35 pm George Sexton wrote: > I'm using Logic Mail 2.0 development snapshot on my Storm, running OS > version 5.0. (Not that the OS Version matters). > > Essentially, the 2.0 build is just horribly broken. Obvious functionality > just doesn't work. I mean things like deleting a message doesn't work at > all. Period. Not at all. > > Another MAJOR hassle is that the subscribed folders feature isn't present > in 2.0. > > I'm willing to pitch in here, and start trying to fix some of these things > but I want to make sure my changes go back into the source tree. > > I didn't see on the development page any information on how to contribute > changes that I make back to the source tree. > > How is this done? > > George Sexton > MH Software, Inc. - Home of Connect Daily Web Calendar > http://www.mhsoftware.com/ > Voice: 303 438 9585 > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 > 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - > and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's > new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Logicmail-devel mailing list > Log...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/logicmail-devel > -- --------------------------- Derek Konigsberg dko...@lo... --------------------------- |
