PHPEclipse, Subclipse, and Webtools plugins for Eclipse

[Douglas E. Warner]

I've recently just discovered the Eclipse IDE, and so far have been very 
impressed with it.  I've been using the PHPEclipse and Subclipse plugins just 
by unzipping the plugins into my /usr/share/eclipse/plugins directory, but I 
know that these are just the jar files and aren't natively compiled like 
Eclipse is.
I'm interested in helping getting these compiled, but unfortunately it's been 
very difficult for me to find information on how to compile plugins by hand 
for Eclipse.
If anyone can provide any pointers or information, I'd be very appreciative.

http://phpeclipse.de/
http://subclipse.tigris.org/
http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/

-Doug

[Andrew Overholt]

Hi Doug,

* Douglas E. Warner <silfreed-fedoralist(a)silfreed.net&gt; [2006-02-24 23:46]:
>  I've recently just discovered the Eclipse IDE, and so far have
> been very 
>  impressed with it. 
I'm glad.

>  I've been using the PHPEclipse and Subclipse plugins just 
>  by unzipping the plugins into my /usr/share/eclipse/plugins directory, 
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.

>  I'm interested in helping getting these compiled, but
> unfortunately it's been 
>  very difficult for me to find information on how to compile plugins by hand 
>  for Eclipse. 
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 :)

Andrew

[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