[fedora-java] Help with photran eclipse feature

Andrew Overholt overholt at redhat.com
Thu Aug 28 20:55:59 UTC 2008


Hi,

* Orion Poplawski <orion at cora.nwra.com> [2008-08-28 16:18]:
> Andrew Overholt wrote:
>>
>> * Orion Poplawski <orion at cora.nwra.com> [2008-08-28 14:09]:
>>> for feature in org.eclipse.photran_feature org.eclipse.photran.intel \
>>>                org.eclipse.photran.vpg_feature   
>>> org.eclipse.photran.xlf_feature
>>
>> We usually try to match features to binary RPMs.
>>
>>> Now the issue seems to be how/where to install.  Each of the zip 
>>> files  created starts with the directory "eclipse/" and 3 contain   
>>> "eclipse/contents.xml" files (which are different) so I don't think 
>>> they  should unzip into the same directory.  What makes sense?
>>
>> If you want them to all be in the same binary RPM, just unzip them all
>> there and remove the content.xml.  content.xml is just for speeding up
>> the first startup after this plugin is installed and isn't strictly
>> necessary.
>
> I'm not sure if any of the other features are useful independent of each  
> other or if you ever would want "photran_feature" without  
> "photran.vpg_feature".  I've asked upstream.

Okay.  Just dump them in the same place if you don't want separation.

> %{eclipse_base}/dropins/photran/eclipse/features/
>
> Should I remove the second "eclipse" or not bother?

Yeah, remove it.  It'll work, but it's better without it.  Some time
soon (before F10) I am going to go through all of the plugins we have in
Fedora and fix this.

Andrew




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