Features/EclipseIndigo

Fedora 16 Eclipse Indigo Update

Summary

Update Fedora's Eclipse stack to Indigo releases.

Owner

• Name: Alex Kurtakov, Andrew Overholt
• Email: akurtako at redhat, overholt at redhat

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora 16
• Last updated: 2011-09-07
• Percentage of completion: 100%

Detailed Description

Many Eclipse projects release annually in June. The 2011 version of this simultaneous release is known as "Indigo" and is made up of 39 projects and 33 million lines of code. The foundation of these projects is the Eclipse project itself, producing the Eclipse SDK which contains the Eclipse Platform, the Eclipse Java Development Tools (JDT), and the Eclipse Plugin Development Environment (PDE).

This Fedora feature encompasses the updating of the Eclipse packages in Fedora to be their Helios versions. Note that not all eclipse-* packages in Fedora are hosted at eclipse.org which coordinates the simultaneous release so this feature does not include them (notable examples include PyDev which is shipped in Fedora as eclipse-pydev).

• Upstream Indigo page

Benefit to Fedora

The latest and greatest versions of Eclipse packages will be available to Fedora users.

Scope

Update dependencies (see below), many eclipse-* packages, and test upgrade experience from existing Helios (2010 simultaneous release name) versions. The packages (SRPM names) that will be updated include:

Done:

1. eclipse DONE
2. eclipse-jdt DONE
3. eclipse-pde DONE
4. eclipse-platform DONE
5. eclipse-rcp DONE
6. eclipse-swt DONE
7. eclipse-gef DONE
8. eclipse-rse DONE
9. eclipse-egit DONE
10. eclipse-jgit DONE
11. eclipse-pydev DONE
12. eclipse-cdt DONE
13. eclipse-linuxprofilingframework DONE
14. eclipse-mylyn-context DONE
15. eclipse-mylyn-tasks DONE
16. eclipse-mylyn-docs DONE
17. eclipse-mylyn-ide DONE
18. eclipse-mylyn-versions DONE
19. eclipse-mylyn-builds DONE
20. eclipse-mylyn DONE
21. eclipse-mylyn-commons DONE
22. eclipse-valgrind DONE
23. eclipse-testframework DONE
24. eclipse-oprofile DONE
25. eclipse-changelog DONE
26. eclipse-gcov DONE
27. eclipse-gprof DONE
28. eclipse-callgraph DONE
29. eclipse-dltk DONE
30. eclipse-rpmstubby DONE
31. eclipse-dtp DONE
32. eclipse-shelled DONE
33. eclipse-rpm-editor DONE
34. eclipse-systemtapgui DONE
35. eclipse-birt DONE
36. eclipse-emf DONE
37. eclipse-ptp DONE

How To Test

• x86 or x86_64 hardware is preferred for testing as the OpenJDK JIT (just in time compiler) is present there
• Installing the packages listed above in the "Scope" section should be installed
• Eclipse should start from the GNOME menu under Programming or from the command line
• The Eclipse Help system should display and allow clicking around the contents (Help menu -> Help Contents)
• Help -> About should show 3.7 somewhere as the version
• Functionality of plugins should be verified but this is plugin-specific
• eclipse-* should upgrade cleanly from their Indigo versions

User Experience

Expected to remain largely the same.

Dependencies

These dependencies are almost complete but updates are not yet in rawhide. There are few packages that depend on the Eclipse stack outside of eclipse-*.

Documentation

New and Noteworthies

• Eclipse JDT debug
• Upstream Eclipse SDK 3.7
• Eclipse SWT
• GEF
• Eclipse TM
• EGit
• JGit
• Pydev (main page contains release notes)
• CDT
• Linux Tools
• Mylyn
• BIRT

Other

• Upstream Indigo page

Release Notes

• Upstream Indigo page

Comments and Discussion

• See Talk:Features/YourFeatureName