Re: [fedora-java] PHPEclipse, Subclipse, and Webtools plugins for Eclipse

[Douglas E. Warner]

On Saturday 25 February 2006 10:54, Andrew Overholt wrote:
>  You can also install them without root access by using the Eclipse
> update
>  manager.  They will then be installed into ~/.eclipse but will obviously
>  only be available to the user who performed the installed. 
That's good to know - thanks!

>  Packaging plugins is the larger issue IMO.  It's difficult to
> find a
>  consisten way of getting the source and building it.  Ben Konrath has been
>  working hard on this and has a few potential solutions.  I'll let him
>  respond when he gets a chance.
>
>  As for natively-compiling the bytecode, it's probably best if you can use
>  aot-compile-rpm.  I know this is designed for use with RPMs, but if you can
>  examine the script and see what it does, it'll be closest to how things are
>  done at RPM build time.  If you can't figure out what to do, come back and
>  we can give detailed instructions.
>
>  Once we get things sorted out, it'd be awesome if you wanted to package
>  some of these plugins for Fedora Extras :) 
When reading the archives I did come across some threads mentioning the 
difficulty of packaging plugins and new scripts to ease the pain, but the 
level of detail was way over my head for a language I'm not too familiar with 
(yet).

I'm definitely looking towards building RPMs one I figure out how to get the 
stuff compiled natively - but I figured I needed to take it one step at a 
time.

Thanks for your help!

-Doug