A GUI tool for Fedora Packagers

Severin Gehwolf sgehwolf at redhat.com
Thu Dec 16 20:24:02 UTC 2010


----- "Mat Booth" <fedora at matbooth.co.uk> wrote:
> > 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 is right. IMO an RCP app would be the way to go if there's a desire
for a stripped down interface. It would certainly avoid reinventing the
wheel :)

Let me know if you are interested in contributing to Eclipse Fedora
Packager. Help would be very much appreciated.

Cheers,
Severin


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