A GUI tool for Fedora Packagers

[Alexander Kurtakov]

On 09:38:08 pm Thursday, December 16, 2010 Mat Booth wrote:
> 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!

I just have to add that if someone tries to make it from scratch he will have 
to write a Git GUI and will lose all possible bugzilla integration(which can 
be made quite easy thanks to Eclipse Mylyn).

Regards,
Alex