[cal10n-dev] Eclipse plug-in update

[TBlack]

 Hi again. 

Sorry  for disappearing, but real life got quite in the way, through  packing 
for an unplanned move which is not yet complete; somewhat  disrupting. 


Moreover, I decided to work on making the plug-in builds automatic -  it's a 
simple plug-in, and it's easy to export the plug-in as an Update  Site as-is, 
but in the past I had a difficult time tracking releases and  bugs with such 
deployment style (obviously). So I delved into Eclipse  Buckminster, and it took 
quite a few days to have a working Buckminster  build coming from a local Hudson 
server. 


Anyway, this means that an update site is now available, at: 

http://eclipse.tatablack.net/ecal10n/latest 

This should contain, as the name highlights, the latest code available,  mostly 
for testing purposes. I plan to have another update site for  released (stable) 
builds, as soon as ECal10n is feature-complete. 


I've also started documenting the plug-in; I'm attaching a PDF which  describes 
how it works, with the help of a couple of screenshots. One  thing missing from 
the PDF is the fact that, in order to have quick  fixes available inside 
property files (that is, Ctrl+1 while on a  property name, in case of 
missing-item-in-enum), you have to explicitly  open the property file with the 
ECal10n Property Editor (right click on  the file in the package explorer, Open 
with -> ECal10n Property Editor).  I decided not to make it the default editor 
for property files, at least  for now. 


Last note: unfortunately, right now the plug-in requires Eclipse 3.6  (Helios) 
and Java 6. Judging from the features used, it should be  possible to make it 
backward-compatible for both (to encourage adoption  and, above all, because I 
realize that Cal10n requires only Java 5), but  I decided to focus on features 
for the time being. 


A. 



      
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