Features/Eclipse34

Eclipse 3.4

Summary

Re-base to Eclipse 3.4 (Ganymede).

Owner

• Name: Andrew Overholt

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora 10
• Last updated: 2008-06-25
• Percentage of completion: 10%

Benefit to Fedora

The latest bells and whistles :)

Scope

See 452875

• Upgrade/introduce dependencies (see below)
• use p2
  • decide (with other distros and in consultation with upstream) about dropins location
  • update pdebuild.sh to generate p2 metadata
  • ensure our metadata is properly read by p2 if we're going to use the dropins approach for additional plugins
  • ensure our arch-specific/arch-independent split still works
• ensure we have all dependent packages updated and OSGi-ified a la Orbit
• ensure secondary arches can still build and run

Test Plan

Automated upstream tests, daily usage, 3rd party plugin installation

User Experience

The user should see a seamless upgrade from eclipse-*-3.3.2 to eclipse-*-3.4.0. Hopefully we'll be able to ensure that 3rd party plugins they've installed (into ~/.eclipse) will continue to work.

Dependencies

• sat4j (I have an SRPM I will submit for review ASAP)
• ECF (To be called eclipse-ecf and has other dependencies of its own). We'll at least need these ECF bundles:
  • org.eclipse.ecf.filetransfer_2.0.0.v20080611-1715.jar
  • org.eclipse.ecf.identity_2.0.0.v20080611-1715.jar
  • org.eclipse.ecf.provider.filetransfer.ssl_1.0.0.v20080611-1715.jar
  • org.eclipse.ecf.provider.filetransfer_2.0.0.v20080611-1715.jar
  • org.eclipse.ecf.ssl_1.0.0.v20080611-1715.jar
  • org.eclipse.ecf_2.0.0.v20080611-1715.jar
• OSGi-ifying: objectweb-asm (probably with a sub-package, objectweb-asm-eclipse or something)
  • get a mega-asm bundle from the multiple JARs we have in Fedora now
• the rest of the dependencies from Eclipse 3.3 except Tomcat

Contingency Plan

Stick with Eclipse 3.3.2.

Release Notes

We may need a release note if we don't get user-installed plugins working.

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