Re: [swtbot-dev] SWTbot release for 3.6 eclipse version

[Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/05/2013 10:20 AM, Radhouan BEN BAHRI wrote:

Hi Guys ,

Hi,

I am an engineer Student in software development . I am working on my internship in STMicroelectronics on testing a based on eclipse product via the plugin SWTbot .
So as a newbie , I would like to ask what release of SWTbot suits best the version 3.6 of eclipse as well as if it includes the new recorder developed  recently .
Thank you  .

That's a difficult question, as no-one currently ensure support for 3.6. However, last build (2.1.1) is built and tested successfully against 3.7 and 4.3. SWTBot doesn't have big dependencies on recent versions of Eclipse as it relies and the stablest parts of Eclipse and don't consume the most recent API.
So, I think you'll simply need to try to install from those sites by yourself:
* Upcoming 2.1.1 http://download.eclipse.org/technology/swtbot/snapshots/
* Current 2.1.0 http://download.eclipse.org/technology/swtbot/releases/2.1.0/
Older ones don't contain recorder:
* 2.0.5 http://download.eclipse.org/technology/swtbot/releases/2.0.5/update-site/
* 2.0.4 http://download.eclipse.org/technology/swtbot/releases/2.0.4/dev-build/update-site/
* 2.0.3 http://download.eclipse.org/technology/swtbot/releases/2.0.3/dev-build/update-site/

The various components (SWT Finder, Eclipse Finder, GEF Finder, Forms Finder, Recorder) may have different dependencies, so it is possible that you can consume for example Recorder from 2.1.1 together with Eclipse finder with 2.0.5.
Just try to install the latest version on a 3.6, and see what p2 tells you at installation. If you can install it, it means that you should be able to use/run it; if it doesn't, p2 will tell you which component is not compatible, so you can try to install this component from an older version.

HTH

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