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| Re: custom package [message #264047 is a reply to message #264044] |
Mon, 08 September 2008 16:13   |
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Originally posted by: eclipse-news.rizzoweb.com
Steve wrote:
> What is the best way to assemble a custom package for my company? We
> want people to be able to unzip one file and have eclipse with a
> collection of goodies ready to go.
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> Is there a problem to simply re-zip a sample setup? Will that bring
> along baggage particular to that setup?
That might work, as long as you don't need to also include a common
workspace. Workspaces are not designed to be shared and trying to do so
has always led to headaches. Unfortunately, most Preferences settings
are stored in the workspace, so many people want to share them.
Have you looked at Pulse? It might be just what you need:
http://www.poweredbypulse.com/
Hope this helps,
Eric
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| Re: custom package [message #264054 is a reply to message #264051] |
Tue, 09 September 2008 14:18 |
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Originally posted by: eclipse-news.rizzoweb.com
Ed Merks wrote:
> Steve,
>
> Comments below.
>
> Steve wrote:
>> The dropins folder got me real close, but for two questions:
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>> Can/will eclipse automatically install items left in dropins?
> Yes, it's supposed to. Sometimes specifying -clean on the command line
> will convince it to consider things it might otherwise overlook.
>>
>> My cdt-master-5.0.0.zip download apparently has dependencies. What is
>> the easiest way to sort them out?
> Not quite sure what you mean, but I find it very useful to run with
> "-clean -debug". The -debug flag result in the
> <workspace>/.metadata/.log containing more informative messages about
> why some plugins and features might be failing to activate. Deleting
> the .log so that it generates a fresh new one is helpful too.
>
> Of course there's all kinds of working being done on installers and it
> should be possible for you to create an update site that folks would use
> to install things from a central server. That's a little more work to
> set up correctly though...
Actually, I think the idea of using a custom Update Site is a good one.
It really isn't very hard to do; you just need to define a feature that
depends on the set of plugins or other features that you want included
in the user's configuration. Then create an update site that includes
that feature and the appropriate associateSites.xml to get the dependencies.
We've done this to make it easy for people to get our "SDK" setup; they
just start with a certain Eclipse package (RCP/Plug-in Developer, in our
case) and then hit the update site at
http://downloads.skywayperspectives.org/builder/ce/sdk/updat es/site.xml
and, viola, they've got the set of features and plugins needed to build
our code. I think a similar update site would work nicely for getting
users to any "pre-configured" tooling setup.
Eric
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| Re: custom package [message #264467 is a reply to message #264054] |
Wed, 17 September 2008 19:47 |
 Steven Schroeder
Messages: 12
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I may be becoming dangerous. I stumbled on the the wiki page at
http://wiki.eclipse.org/EPP/How_to_build_a_package_locally and *thought*
that it described exactly what I want to do. I would like to create
something like "Eclipse IDE for Java Developers" or "Eclipse IDE for C/C++
Developers" but with a custom selection of features. Then a new user
simply needs to unzip that custom package, just like you would with the
"standard" ones, and go. No updates, no fuss, no queues at my office.
Am I way off base, abusing a tool? If not, I have a problem. The build
finds all of the features, merrily installs them, then:
<SNIP>
Building configured application...
Configuration files taken from <path>\packagerConfiguration.
The application will be built in <path>.
Then it stops; no Packing installation site, Building, or Moving Files.
Thanks for everyone's help,
Steve
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| Re: custom package [message #264519 is a reply to message #264467] |
Thu, 18 September 2008 14:40 |
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Originally posted by: eclipse-news.rizzoweb.com
EPP has its own newsgroup, which I've copied on this response.
You might want to re-state your goal since it is not quoted in the
latest message below.
By the way, check out this blog entry about an online package builder:
< http://rapblog.innoopract.com/2008/09/new-eclipse-download-w izard-and-rap.html>
On 9/17/2008 3:47 PM, Steve wrote:
> I may be becoming dangerous. I stumbled on the the wiki page at
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/EPP/How_to_build_a_package_locally and *thought*
> that it described exactly what I want to do. I would like to create
> something like "Eclipse IDE for Java Developers" or "Eclipse IDE for
> C/C++ Developers" but with a custom selection of features. Then a new
> user simply needs to unzip that custom package, just like you would with
> the "standard" ones, and go. No updates, no fuss, no queues at my office.
>
> Am I way off base, abusing a tool? If not, I have a problem. The build
> finds all of the features, merrily installs them, then:
>
> <SNIP>
> Building configured application...
> Configuration files taken from <path>\packagerConfiguration.
> The application will be built in <path>.
>
> Then it stops; no Packing installation site, Building, or Moving Files.
>
> Thanks for everyone's help,
> Steve
>
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| Re: custom package [message #265122 is a reply to message #264554] |
Wed, 01 October 2008 16:33 |
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Originally posted by: gregor.rosenauer.itsv.at
[Repost to this topic as it is more current]
How did you get it to build the package (in the Ant-step)?
I get as far as Packager building my custom ZIP, but on the final step,
where the Ant script is invoked, it fails:
Packing installation site....Done.
Building...Could not build package.:
org.apache.tools.ant.Project.setProjectReference(Ljava/lang/ Object;)V:org.apache.tools.ant.Project.setProjectReference(L java/lang/Object;)V
The full log excerpt:
!SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.ant.core 4 1 2008-10-01 13:54:12.126
!MESSAGE
org.apache.tools.ant.Project.setProjectReference(Ljava/lang/ Object;)V
!STACK 0
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError:
org.apache.tools.ant.Project.setProjectReference(Ljava/lang/ Object;)V
at
org.eclipse.ant.internal.core.ant.InputHandlerSetter.setInpu tHandler(InputHandlerSetter.java:43)
at
org.eclipse.ant.internal.core.ant.InternalAntRunner.addInput Handler(InternalAntRunner.java:1273)
at
org.eclipse.ant.internal.core.ant.InternalAntRunner.run(Inte rnalAntRunner.java:532)
at
org.eclipse.ant.internal.core.ant.InternalAntRunner.run(Inte rnalAntRunner.java:456)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAcce ssorImpl.java:39)
at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMe thodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at org.eclipse.ant.core.AntRunner.run(AntRunner.java:378)
at org.eclipse.ant.core.AntRunner.run(AntRunner.java:475)
at
org.eclipse.epp.packaging.core.assembly.PackagerRunner.packA pplication(PackagerRunner.java:51)
I am using Eclipse 3.4 EE package, also tried with a clean 3.4.1 RCP
install, same issue. Using Ant 1.7. I would be grateful for any help.
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