Linuxtools 0.1 release

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

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) :)

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 :)

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

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

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

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 :)