Re: [fedora-java] src.zip's and rpms in Eclipse

[Andrew Overholt]

On Wed, 2006-29-11 at 08:28 -0800, Anthony Green wrote:
>  On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 18:57 -0600, Phil Muldoon wrote:
>  >  Is 
>  > there a Wiki page, guide .. or general advice to accomplish this as it 
>  > is done via the Classpath rpm?
>  
>  I was under the impression that Eclipse finds the target JDK's src.zip
>  based on well known conventions of JDK layout (which we follow in
>  java-1.4.2-gcj-compat).  As far as I know there's no way to do this for
>  random jar files.  You need to manually attach the source jar/zip to the
>  jar file within Eclipse. 
No, I think it can be done for any jar.  Ben will know, though.

>  Perhaps it makes sense to add a manifest file tag identifying the
>  location of the jar file's source code.  Then Eclipse could be taught to
>  look for the source itself.  Maybe this is something Andrew and team can
>  tackle as part of their new Eclipse Linux packaging effort at
>  eclipse.org. 
Har-har :)

Andrew