AsciiDoc editor and preview
by Dan Allen
As several projects (JDF, CDI, Arquillian, etc) move more towards using
lightweight markup languages for documentation, I see a real opportunity in
JBossTools to provide an AsciiDoc (and perhaps Markdown) editor and preview
pane, very similar to how the HTML editor works. (In fact, personally, I
see more value in this tool than the HTML editor).
The features I'd like to see are:
* syntax highlighting
* syntax assistance and/or templates
* preview pane (split or as separate tab)
It may also be interesting to have a view which can help layout text-based
diagrams. See AsciiFlow (http://asciiflow.com) to get the idea. Text-based
diagramming can save developers a lot of time.
Although AsciiDoc is written in Python, it can be invoked in Java through
Jython [1]. There is also effort underway to create a Ruby port, which
would enable it to be called via JRuby [2].
-Dan
[1]
https://github.com/asciidoc/asciidoc-maven-plugin/blob/master/src/main/ja...
[2] https://github.com/erebor/asciidoctor
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13 years, 3 months
Plan to remove installation-tests from the jbosstools-base repo
by Mickael Istria
Hi all,
As tracked in https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-12905 , we are
trying to move installation tests out of jbosstools-base/tests since it
is something that comes on top of JBT/JBDS, and which is not part of the
base. We decided it would make its own git repo, since it's not exactly
integration tests neither, and also because we can anticipate the fact
that some other "Stacks" (SOA, Fuse...) would like to use it to test
their update-sites.
So the repo is here:
https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-install-grinder . Most stuff
was updated to work well with this change.
We're just waiting for some QA jobs will be adapted. Pavol is leading
this stuff for QA side. When he migrates to the new repo/job/URLs and
everything is working well, we'll remove this stuff from jbosstools-base.
The plan is to do it ASAP, but we are not in a hurry for that. So if
Pavol has some more important tasks to do, we'll wait after GA.
Does anyone have any objection, concern or question on this topic?
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