JBoss development tools on Fedora

[Emeka Bethel N]

I've been thinking, can we have JBoss development tools by default on Fedora anytime soon? We've been pushing a lot of down-stream projects up on Fedora so why not our very own JBoss?

[Owen Taylor]

Hi Emeka,

Are you talking about the JBoss suite of Eclipse plugins? If so, I think adding Eclipse and the plugins is probably more of a size increase than we really want to add to what we ship as part of the default image. But we should definitely make sure that it's really smooth to get going with JBoss on Fedora.

Right now when I try 'dnf install eclipse-jbosstools' on Fedora 24 beta I see:

Error: nothing provides osgi(org.eclipse.core.runtime.compatibility) needed by eclipse-jbosstools-common-4.2.2-1.fc22.noarch

So it looks like the packaging of these tools hasn't been updated recently. From my experience, in the Eclipse world, it's much more normal to install plugins through the Eclipse user interface than to use packages, so that might be the reason.

Especially when looking ahead to the Flatpak future, I wonder if packaging Eclipse plugins makes sense at all. If we stop doing that, can we make installing the JBoss development easier than following the instructions for the Eclipse Marketplace on http://tools.jboss.org/downloads/installation.html? Do we need to?

- Owen

----- Original Message -----
> I've been thinking, can we have JBoss development tools by default on Fedora
> anytime soon? We've been pushing a lot of down-stream projects up on Fedora
> so why not our very own JBoss?
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[Mat Booth]

On 23 May 2016 at 21:01, Owen Taylor  wrote:
> Hi Emeka,
>
> Are you talking about the JBoss suite of Eclipse plugins? If so, I think
> adding Eclipse and the plugins is probably more of a size increase than we
> really want to add to what we ship as part of the default image. But we
> should definitely make sure that it's really smooth to get going with JBoss
> on Fedora.
>
> Right now when I try 'dnf install eclipse-jbosstools' on Fedora 24 beta I
> see:
>
> Error: nothing provides osgi(org.eclipse.core.runtime.compatibility)
> needed by eclipse-jbosstools-common-4.2.2-1.fc22.noarch
>
> So it looks like the packaging of these tools hasn't been updated
> recently.

In fact, this package was retired because nobody stepped up to maintain it.
:-(
> From my experience, in the Eclipse world, it's much more normal to install
> plugins through the Eclipse user interface than to use packages, so that
> might be the reason.
>
> Especially when looking ahead to the Flatpak future, I wonder if packaging
> Eclipse plugins makes sense at all. If we stop doing that, can we make
> installing the JBoss development easier than following the instructions for
> the Eclipse Marketplace on
> http://tools.jboss.org/downloads/installation.html? Do we need to?
> Owen
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > I've been thinking, can we have JBoss development tools by default on
>
> Fedora
> > anytime soon? We've been pushing a lot of down-stream projects up on
>
> Fedora
> > so why not our very own JBoss?
> >
> > desktop mailing list
> > [e-mail]
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/[e-mail]
>
> desktop mailing list
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