Features/IntelliJ IDEA

IDEA Community Edition in Fedora

IntelliJ IDEA

Summary

Add Community IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition packages and their dependencies into repositories. Along with Eclipse and NetBeans already provided by Fedora, IDEA is a popular Java-based development environment.

Owner

• Name: Lubomir Rintel
• email: <lkundrak@v3.sk>

• Name: Michal Ingeli
• email: <mi@v3.sk>

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora 13
• Last updated: Nov Mon 09 2009
• Percentage of completion: 19.832%

What's already done can be found at http://fedorapeople.org/~lkundrak/intellij-idea/ which should (along with the dependency matrix below) give you more specific idea about the progress.

Detailed Description

See Summary and Scope for more details. This is mostly a packaging exercise.

Benefit to Fedora

Fedora users will gain comfortable access to features of Community Edition if IDEA, which include support for Java language, popular version control systems, GUI designer, etc. The overview of features is available in comparison matrix.

Apart from IDEA itself, many of its dependencies are a rather nice addition to the Fedora package collection. This includes Saxon HE, a modern implementation of popular XML-related W3C standards and recommendations, JGraph graphing library and most importantly a complete tooling for scripting in Groovy language.

Scope

• Several new packages have to be added to Fedora
  • Pulled in from JPackage and adjusted to conform with guidelines
  • Newly packaged
• Some packages need to be updated (or compat packages added) to be compatible with IDEA requirements
  • This is the only change that touches existing stuff
• IDEA itself has to be packaged
  • The build system adjusted not to use bundled prebuilt code

For details, see Dependencies section.

How To Test

Each of the dependency packages will be QA-ed passing through standard packaging review process. Fair amount of packages contains test suites run in %check phase of the package build process.

Correctness of the dependency chain of the core (conflicts and requires) will be verified in several scenarios

• Minimal installation (in mock chroot)
• Desktop live installation
• Everything installation

Functionality of each of the plugins needs to be verified separately and the test plan is dependent on provided functionality and would vary for each specific plugin.

User Experience

• Install pkcon install intellij-idea
• Run idea

Dependencies

Since IDEA itself is a new package, nothing depends on it. Here are idea's requirements [1]:

Core

Package	From where	Notes	Bugzilla Ticket (review, etc.)
intellij-idea	Needs to be created	In works. SPEC & Patches: [2]
picocontainer	Pull from JPackage	Old dead reviews 227093, 252119
groovy	New package (upstream's RPM package is useless). Done: [3]	Dependency chain: everything, compilation. Requires apache-ivy and xstream. Needs review	534168
xstream	Pull from JPackage Done: [4]	Depends on jettison, cglib. Needs review	534135
xmlbeans	Pull from JPackage	Depends on saxon8 or saxon9. Dead review 227122. Needs review	532709
saxon9	New package	JPackage had saxon8. Needs review	532664
microba	New package	Needs review	532205
jgraph	New package	Review in progress	532203
cglib	Pull from JPackage	Port IDEA to 2.2 API (from 2.1.3): Done. Dead review: 469894. Waiting for CVS	537066
apache-ivy	New package	Waiting for CVS	534021
jettison	Pull from JPackage	Done	508521
nanoxml	Pull from JPackage	Done	532315
jna	Needs -examples subpackage		532208
junit4	Needs update to 4.6	Need to check dependencies: Done	532210

The dead reviews are mostly from past more-or-less unsuccessful bulk JPackage pull attempts. Once core is done, we'll start work on plugins.

Plugins

TBD (can wait until Core is finished). No plugin is a hard dependency.

Package	From where	Notes	Ticket (review, etc.)

Contingency Plan

None necessary. If the work will not be finished early enough, the existing packaging work does not need to be reverted.

Documentation

The packaging will be well described in comments, this wiki page will be regularly updated with progress and serve as overview of what is done to anyone who would like to contribute.

Release Notes

It may make sense to add something similar to the following to What's New paragraph. Would need adjustments in accordance with features (plugins) that could actually be packaged:

IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition integrated development environment
is available in package collection for this release of Fedora. Most
important features include:

* Intuitive creation of GUIs similar to IDEA's own one
* Integration with Ant and Maven
* Testing with TestNG and JUnit
* Compatibility with Eclipse projects
* Language support for Java, Groovy, XML and Regular Expressions
* Version control with CVS, Subversion and GIT

Comments and Discussion

• See Talk:Features/IntelliJ IDEA