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Bug 483949

Summary:	Provide the orion as an electron app
Product:	[ECD] Orion	Reporter:	Paul Webster <pwebster>
Component:	Node	Assignee:	Michael Rennie <Michael_Rennie>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	cdtdoug, chrisli615, kuschel, mamacdon, Michael_Rennie, remy.suen, simon_kaegi, steve_northover
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:

Description Paul Webster

2015-12-08 15:28:23 EST

We should be able to repackage the Orion editor as an electron app.

PW

Comment 1 Paul Webster

2015-12-08 15:42:05 EST

Some options:

1. run orionode as the electron app, and have the BrowserWindows connect to the main process as an HTTP server

2. Replace any XHR calls with the electron IPC calls.  The electron main process then has to route those calls and return the appropriate responses.

3. Replace parts of the client code with node calls, since electron is based on node.js/io.js

PW

Comment 2 Paul Webster

2015-12-08 15:52:57 EST

Chris provided a prototype of option 2, using IPC.  It's available on pwebster/bug483949

https://git.eclipse.org/c/orion/org.eclipse.orion.client.git/log/?h=pwebster/bug483949

Comment 3 Doug Schaefer

2016-10-27 06:37:22 EDT

Hi Paul, has there been any progress on this?

Comment 4 Steve Northover

2016-10-27 08:57:25 EDT

Hi Doug, there has.  It is possible to build your own Orion Electron application from source.  There will be some blogs about this in the near future.

Comment 5 Michael Rennie

2016-12-12 10:52:10 EST

We have a new Type_A CQ working its way through the process that will allow us to ship a prebuilt version of the app.

http://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12337

Comment 6 Steve Northover

2017-03-29 17:04:14 EDT


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 514404 ***