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
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