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Reputation: 23

Where can I get Zest 2.0 eclipse plugin

I was trying to get Zest 2.0 for Eclipse marketplace but found nothing.

Then I tried to download it manually through GEF4, however it seems that there are only 1.x versions of Zest.

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How can I install Zest 2.0 properly?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1554

Answers (2)

Zoltán Ujhelyi
Zoltán Ujhelyi

Reputation: 13858

The version history of Zest is not entirely clear, but I try to tell what happened there:

  • The original versions (Zest 1.x) were developed by Ian Bull, that was included in the GEF project, but was developed mostly separately.
  • GEF 2.0 started as a Google Summer of Code project in 2009 (IIRC), and a lot of new features and bugfixes were implemented over the 1.x branch, but they were never ported back to the release train.
  • Then GEF4 started as a new approach where the entire inner behaviour of GEF was changed, and in 2014 the Zest 2.0 components were migrated to use the new GEF4 codebase, using a 0.1.0 version number.
  • In June 2016 this was released as GEF4 Zest 1.0.

In other words, components called Zest 2.0 are not available in any standalone release. If you want to rely on them, you can do one of the following:

Upvotes: 1

Bela Vizer
Bela Vizer

Reputation: 2537

Click on help menu / install new software, click on add button to add new update site. The update site can be found here. In your case that might be this: http://download.eclipse.org/tools/gef/gef4/updates/releases. You should see this:

update site Zest

Install it. Or you may be able to install it using local update site (not tried) found here: https://www.eclipse.org/gef/downloads/index.php.

Upvotes: 0

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