[fedora-java] eclipse problems on fedora

[Andrew Overholt]

* Mat Booth <fedora at matbooth.co.uk> [2010-01-08 08:50]:
> 2010/1/8 Andrew Overholt <overholt at redhat.com>:
> > * Guy McArthur <guymac at gmail.com> [2010-01-08 08:32]:
> >> Hello, I want to use the Google Eclipse plugin for developing
> >> appengine stuff in fedora 12 x86_64 kde spin but have encountered
> >> serious problems getting this going. The straightforward way,
> >> downloading the whole platform from eclipse.org has a rendering bug.
> >
> > Try exporting GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true and re-running.  There are some
> > SWT bugs on GTK 2.18.  Query for GTK2.18 at bugs.eclipse.org and you'll
> > find a few.  We've backported a few fixes and made the above environment
> > variable a default in our Eclipse packages in Fedora 12.
> >
> >> With the other way, installing eclipse from fedora repositories via
> >> yum, I'm not sure how to add the Google plugin or any of its
> >> dependencies.
> >
> > You do it the same way, using the update manager.  The only sticking
> > point is that the Galileo repository isn't there by default.  It's easy
> > to add, though.  Just enter the URL as
> > http://download.eclipse.org/releases/galileo
> >
> 
> What dependencies are we missing in Fedora for the Google Plugin?
> Presumably WTP at least.

Sorry, I don't know anything about said "Google Plugin".  I know when
people have tried to use the Android stuff in the past they've needed
some component of WTP.

Andrew