Here's what i know about Spindle for T4. Geoff split Spindle in two
libraries, an IDE agnostic one that could be used by any plugin for any
IDEA and the Eclipse plugin itself. I started using the IDE agnostic
part in TapIDEA. I'd say that Geoff left about 80% of the work done. As
far as the Eclipse plugin is concerned, i think it's in a much earlier
stage of development, but i'm not really sure about this as i never
looked at code.
AFAIK, the Splindle project is dead until someone comes along and picks
it up where Geoff left off.
I don't want to steal the thread to TapIDEA, but just as a side note,
i'm implementing TapIDEA for T5 and dropped TapIdea for T4 as i feel
that by the time i got it right T5 would probably be out and running.
And by the way, TapIDEA for T5 is coming out great :o)
So, if anyone decides to pick up on Spindle, i'll gladly share my
knowledge on the IDE agnostic library. In the meantime, i'll be focusing
on TapIDEA.
Dan Adams wrote:
So I'm one of those guys who in general thinks you shouldn't need
special IDE tools to work on your stuff (ala JSF) but at the same time
it would be really could if I could select a block of text in a template
and do "Extract component" or "Extract block". I know that development
on Spindle has stopped so I question is
- would these kind of eclipse-refactoring-esque features be right for
spindle or a whole new plugin?
- what's the status of where spindle left off?
