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