Hi,
I wanted to draw attention to some useful features that Eclipse
committers might wish to exploit.
1)
During the last release cycle I spent time ensuring that all the Eclipse
Platform project's Oomph setups work. Furthermore, I authored an Oomph
Configuration to make it very easy to provision a development
environment that contains the workspace projects *from **all Git
repositories *that are used to produce the Eclipse Platform SDK. The
following tutorial outlines the steps involved:
https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_Platform_SDK_Provisioning
I personally find it super useful to have a workspace in which I can see
the current state of every platform project where I can search all the
source code (including finding uses of constants) and can also commit
changes to Gerrit to help fix problems that I encounter during my
day-to-day usage of Eclipse. I would appreciate if other committers
tested/tried the tutorial, especially on Mac and Linux. The tutorial
has a Bugzilla link for providing feedback.
2)
Did you ever try to figure which Git repository any particular class
comes from? Just the Eclipse platform project has 24+ repositories.
Where oh where does that file come from? When was the last time it was
changed? What did the historical versions look like?
In Photon, on the Navigate menu, you can use "Open Discovered Type...".
Note that it has a Help button; the ?-button even spins to attract your
attention. Please read it once to get the most value from it.
This dialog, much like the "Open Type..." dialog (Ctrl-Shift-T), lets
you search for Java classes using familiar camel-case search. It lets
you open the class in a browser (internal or external), or even in JDT's
Java editor with pretty syntax highlighting. Also, if there is an
associated Oomph setup for the class' Git repository, you can use it to
import the projects into your workspace. You might use this if the
debugger doesn't find the source, when analyzing an AERI report's stack
trace, or when reporting a bug with a specific reference to source code.
Note that this dialog uses the index that we generate periodically for
all Eclipse Git repositories hosted by git.eclipse.org and by
https://github.com/eclipse/ so it really is an index of all Java classes
of all Eclipse projects.
3)
You all know how hard it is to find p2 repositories; they're so poorly
documented. Oomph's Repository Explorer provides the ability to search
the index that we generate daily of all p2 repositories hosted on
download.eclipse.org:
https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_Oomph_Authoring#How_to_find_a_P2_repository_at_Eclipse_using_the_Repository_Explorer
You can use this to quickly find the best URL to use for your target
platform. Where are all your dependencies putting their builds for
contribution to simrel 2018-09, where did they put their Photon
releases, where are their nightly/integration builds? You don't need to
guess...
Cheers,
Ed
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