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RE: Re: Wolfram Workbench

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  • Subject: [mg68181] RE: [mg68145] Re: [mg67990] Wolfram Workbench
  • From: "Virgilio, Vincent - SSD" <Vincent.Virgilio at itt.com>
  • Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 05:30:06 -0400 (EDT)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

I haven't noticed a new type of association between Mathematica packages
(*.m) and notebooks (*.nb) in WolframWorkbench.

Though, I have seen an emphasis on package and "test" files (*.m and
*.mt).  Probably because they fit naturally into traditional version
control (and the rest of the Eclipse framework) with their
human-readable text format.  I'm not sure how WRI would/will integrate
their 2D file format (notebooks) into Eclipse as tightly.  Is there
prior art elsewhere in Eclipse?

Vince Virgilio

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Chiasson [mailto:chris at chiasson.name] 
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Subject: [mg68181] [mg68145] Re: [mg67990] Wolfram Workbench

Thanks for posting this message. I usually ignore all WRI product
announcements...

I have never used a revision control system before. I have wanted to
because my website files are XML, and should be easily manageable with
one. Unfortunately, (fully featured) Mathematica notebooks are resistant
to version control, or so I read on the group a long time ago.

From watching the demos at

http://www.wolfram.com/products/workbench/workflow/

it appears WRI has developed a new type of .m and .nb file pairing. In
the new pairing, the .m file appears to the the primary document, while
the notebook is for testing code and generating outputs. Let's hope no
one accidentally uses the option to create a .m file from initialization
files on one of those notebooks. That might overwrite the source file.

How should people go about importing old code (developed with the
previous .nb and .m file usage) into this framework?

I have many more questions, especially with respect to revision control,
package generation and loading, handling of the notebook cache, etc, but
I will download the trial first...

Do the Workbench developers feel like dropping any knowledge?

On 7/20/06, Mark Westwood <markc.westwood at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> This group has been very quiet on the issue of Wolfram Workbench.  
> I've just started dipping my toes into it.  One of the matters which 
> bugs me is its built-in integration with CVS ... and then I found 
> http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-ecl-subver
> sion/?ca=dgr-lnxw01EclipseSubversion
>
> which gave good instructions on how to integrate with Subversion.  I 
> just followed along, pointed and clicked, and within 10 minutes have 
> WW talking to my repository.
>
> Regards
> Mark Westwood
> Parallel Programmer
>
>


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http://chris.chiasson.name/

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