A GUI tool for Fedora Packagers

[Mat Booth]

On 16 December 2010 17:09, Ratnadeep Debnath <rtnpro at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Mat Booth <fedora at matbooth.co.uk> wrote:
>> I have been using eclipse-fedorapackager for a while now and it works
>> quite well, thanks for the effort that has gone into it.
>>
>
> +1
>
>> My life revolves around Eclipse at my day job so using this plug-in
>> wasn't a leap, but I've found that many people who aren't developers
>> find Eclipse quite an overly large and intimidating product so maybe a
>> little RCP app would be quite neat for people who don't need a full
>> blown IDE. :-)
>>
>
> That is what I am also thinking. As it was said earlier, that a stand
> alone version for Fedora Eclipse Packager can be made, we should start
> working on that. The code already exists for the backend. We can
> design a GUI with gtk+ and put all the features in a simple to use
> interface.
>

Well, the GUI already exists as an Eclipse IDE plug-in, my suggestion
was to just turn that into an Eclipse Rich Client Platform application
(read up on Eclipse RCP to see what I mean.) I believe that is also
what Chris Aniszczyk hinted at. There's really no need to redesign it
from scratch!

-- 
Mat Booth
http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora