Random things will appear

New Life for ShellEd - Milestone 0

2009-11-16T05:04:00.000-08:00

It's a great pleasure to announce the first DLTK based version of ShellEd.
In addition to the porting work a number of new features have been added:
- task tags support
- launch script with ability to pass parameters
- code folding for functions
- open declaration for functions
- goto variable declaration

The plugin still needs stabilization but it is usable as is now (maybe even more than 1.0.4 release).

You can download Milestone 0 from here. Or if you are brave enough you can use the update site where snapshot builds are pushed.

Fedora package will be updated whenever I get some positive feedback.

Test, use, send patches, enjoy :)

Time is flying

2009-10-01T06:18:00.000-07:00

Yay, one year with my Red Fedora on :)

Packaging Java libraries using Maven build system

2009-09-08T02:50:00.000-07:00

After the BIG fight for updating Maven in Fedora (yay we got version 2.0.8 in Rawhide, finally) a really nice idea came to me: enhance RPMStubby to work for Maven pom.xml files in addition to Eclipse feature.xml files.
It happen to be really easy. Try it out from Linux Tools nightly update site and don't forget to report bugs.

Quick HOW-TO:

Right click on your pom.xml file.
Select Stubby/Stubbify a RPM spec file.
Enjoy.

Note: Upstream developers using Maven build system please fill all the metadata supposed to be in the pom.xml file. You will help us by not having to open bug reports like this.

Linuxtools 0.2 release and the new RPM specfile editor

2009-05-12T02:06:00.000-07:00

Long time no post but Linux Tools 0.2 release really deserves it.
From all the wonderful tools I want to outline one of them - Specfile editor.

A number of new features appear in this release:

* User documentation - Finally we've got a user documentation to help new user get the most out of it.
* Structure compare - If you loved the way Eclipse Team/Compare allows you to view differences with latest from repository, local history and etc. for your source files - the feature is here for your .spec files.
* Even better rpmlint integration - Rpmlint warning/features are now in your Problem view so you don't miss them.

Now is the time to ease your .spec files editing and maintenance. Install and enjoy.
Install instructions and more details for the release here.

Linuxtools 0.1 release

2009-02-12T02:51:00.000-08:00

I'm so happy to see our first official release.
And I'm so proud with the functionality present in the RPM specfile editor. We get one of the best editors for spec files (or maybe the only one) with all the bells and whistles seen in other eclipse editors. At least we are trying so if something is missing for you please report it here. Users opinions are always welcome and motivating for us developers.
Hopefully most Fedora packagers will find this useful :).

Another one bites the dust

2009-02-11T01:29:00.000-08:00

On my quest to have all Eclipse plugins I use(some of them not often enough like the one we will be talking about) packaged in Fedora I want to announce the latest addition to the collection:
eclipse-moreunit
This should help you getting your code more stable and tested. Go and try it or read more on its home page.

Payback time (for cmakeed authors) :)

2009-02-01T23:15:00.000-08:00

Cmakeed has entered rawhide today.
Authors (thanks Mike) are really responsive and made a number of changes (even when some of them were just to better match Fedora's policies) to make this happen easier. Now it is time for payback - fill bugs, requests for enhancements and etc. Preferably in sourceforge tracker when this is not a packaging bug.

Artists help wanted :)

2009-01-16T04:50:00.000-08:00

While triaging old Eclipse linux-distros bugs I found a bug which is not the thing we (developers) can do, at least we will not do it good.
So here it is "ChangeLog icon wanted".
We need an icon representing the meaning of a Change Log file to use to distinguish such file from the others in Eclipse.
If anyone interested please attach your icons to the bug.

Two announcements I missed to do here

2009-01-12T00:28:00.000-08:00

ShellEd 1.0.4

* Plugin requires Java 5 now
* Make use of the Java 5 language constructions and apis
* Remove deprecated usage whenever possible.
* Drop dead code.
* Convert Eclipse-AutoStart to Bundle-ActivationPolicy
* Drop dependency on Eclipse compatibility plugins.
* Variable names with underscores are highlighted correctly
* Fix for opening workbench external file

rpm-editor 0.4.1

* The plugin needs at least Java 5 now. The codebase has been update
to take the most out of the new apis.
* Group tag is validated to be correct from rpm GROUPS file.
* Added support for task tags.
* Macroses that match package name (e.g. %setup) are correctly
highlighted as macroses not as package.
* Add hyperlink for Source and Patch definitions.
* Show %patch autocomplete only in %prep section.
* Do not show simple sections in the subpackages.
* Simplify parsing code a little
* Clean ups all over the codebase.
* New quick fixes for the following rpmlint warnings:
- HardcodedPackagerTag
- HardcodedPrefixTag
- NoCleanSection
- NoInstallSection
- NoPrepSection

Rpmstubby and cmakeed

2008-12-19T03:39:00.000-08:00

Two new plugins are waiting for review in Fedora:

* rpmstubby - Rpm specfile generator for Eclipse features
* cmakeed - CMake Editor plug-in for Eclipse

You should notice that the cmakeed is almost entirely generated by rpmstubby so go on and try it.

Cmakeed preparing to go in Fedora

2008-12-05T04:07:00.000-08:00

Thanks to the responsiveness of upstream authors I have prepared a package for the latest (not yet announced :) 1.1.0 RC4 of cmakeed. Test rpm can be found here. As soon as the final release appears I'll put the spec in bugzilla for review.
Hopefully before this I can get as much bug reports as possible so we can really get the best CMake editor.
Feel free to bug me or the upstream authors for any problem/suggestion you may have.

P.S. Don't be confused by the rpm name. You really need Fedora 10 to be able to use it or for those who hasn't upgraded yet (e.g. me) you should upgrade your Eclipse packages and dependencies to Fedora 10.

P.S. 2: The entire spec file was generated with rpmstubby with only 3 manual adjustments so you can really start packaging your Eclipse plugins with it. It has never been so easy :)

Eclipse ShellEd reborn

2008-12-02T14:48:00.001-08:00

Today, I've used my commit rights for the shelled plugin for the first time. And I think this was quite a productive day :
* All compatibility plugin requires are removed.
* A lot of deprecated usages are fixed.
* A lot of generification has happened.
* And finally the first bugfix (provided by Mat Booth) - a highlighting for variables with underscore in their name are properly highlighted now.

Future plans include:
1. monitoring the sourceforge tracker for ideas and problems for our current users :)
2. work on rebasing the plugin on dltk to get all these nice things for free :)

And finally we have eclipse-shelled packaged in fedora.

Help, ideas and so on apreciated (If someone is reading this blog ;).

Eclipse TextEditor and the status bar.

2008-11-07T12:22:00.000-08:00

If you ever wondered why my text editor doesn't provide the carret position and the other goodies you are seeing from every text based editor. Here is one of the possible problems.

You have missed the bolded line in your editor declaration

<editor class="..."
contributorClass="org.eclipse.ui.texteditor.BasicTextEditorActionContributor"
default="..." filenames="..." icon="..." id="..." name="..."/>

This is the magic behind all this small features.

Eclipse in Mandriva Cooker

2008-10-31T02:36:00.000-07:00

I'm looking for someone to take care for eclipse in mandriva cooker.
This should not require too much effort - only a regular sync with Fedora's packages.
If anyone wants to help I promise to ping him whenever there is a fix in fedora that should be put in Mandriva and help with fixing any issue. As I'm working on Fedora Eclipse full time now if there is some problem in Mandriva it is going to be a problem with Fedora too. So really you even don't need to know much about java packaging - you just need account at kenobi :). And you are more than welcome at Linux distros.
Write me if you want more info.

Red Hat

2008-10-20T13:04:00.000-07:00

I have joined Red Hat in the beginning of this month.
Being in the Eclipse team I hope that with the current efforts for sharing more and more between distros this work will make the whole eclipse on linux situation a lot better.

Ruby

2008-06-04T13:56:00.000-07:00

JRuby 1.1.2 and its dependencies are on the cooker mirrors now. (If only there was a tagged version for the joni version used in this release).

Rails is also updated to the newest 2.1.0 release.

Rpm editor quick fixes hunt

2008-05-20T02:18:00.000-07:00

As of today eclipse rpm editor has 2 new quickfixes:
* no-buildroot-tag - This simply adds a generic
Buildroot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root
* no-cleaning-of-buildroot - add rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT immediately after the %install section

If someone is reading this blog and have some ideas for additional rpmlint problems that are easily fixable in a crossdistro way please let me know.
Mandriva Cooker rpms will be available soon.

Eclipse rpm editor 0.3.0 - What's new?

2008-05-09T10:12:00.000-07:00

Check out all the goodies in it:
* Bump the java to the 1.5 level and generify the source.
* Fix File->Open File bug.
* Make %{SOURCE} and %patch hyperlinks to ease navigation.
* Fix conflict with Java editor which disables "Organize imports" key binding.
* Add interface for adding directories to Macro completion list
* Backup package list only if the file existing + strings cleanups.
* Handle directories with macros files.
* Enable auto-complete for the defined sources in the spec.

Oh and packages are available in Mandriva Cooker for everyone to test.

JRuby entered in Mandriva Cooker

2008-04-29T03:21:00.000-07:00

To all Cooker and JRuby users:
JRuby is on the mirrors in the Mandriva Cooker repositories.
Please "urpmi jruby" and report any problems you'll find.

Most of the credits should go to the Fedora guys. The biggest difference is that we are installing in /usr/share because there is nothing arch specific in the JRuby rpm.

jpackage sync for 17 March 2008

2008-04-16T12:14:00.000-07:00

Updated:
jarjar
mx4j
ognl

New package
hamcrest

Cooker is reopen ....

2008-04-15T23:47:00.001-07:00

... and updates are coming:
* itext
* janino
* classpath
* jamvm

And new packages:
easymock2 (for hamcrest)

Source and patch are links now

2008-04-10T09:53:00.000-07:00

Keep improving the spec editor. Let's make %Source and %patch hyperlinks which navigate to the definition. A picture is more than a thousand words :))
And clicking sends you to :
And the same for patches

Keybinding conflict

2008-03-21T13:31:00.000-07:00

I've just committed a fix for the nasty keybinding conflict between Rpm Spec editor and Java editor and Eclipse - both were registered to the same shortcut Ctrl-Shift-O. The spec editor was using the generic org.eclipse.ui.textEditorScope so it just overrides Java editor shortcut. Not having the Organize Imports is a big problem especially when you are used to it.

Spec editor first step

2008-03-19T01:38:00.000-07:00

First commit to eclipse repository done :) .
It's just the possibility(user interface) to add a directory to the rpm macros proposal list. But the efect on Mandriva is huge - with so many packages shipping their own rpm macroses adding /etc/rpm/macros.d to the list increases the number of macros proposal several times. It really saves a lot of time with java packages - %{ant}, %{gcj_compile}, %{gcj_files} and etc.
Next step: Mandriva package with this feature and /etc/rpm/macros.d added by default :) to safe one more step.

Eclipse commiter

2008-03-14T08:05:00.000-07:00

After the successful vote I've completed all the legal paperwork and I'm now a committer on the technology.linux-distros project. The hard part is coming - make the rpm spec editor better.