[fedora-java] eclipse problems on fedora

[Mat Booth]

2010/1/8 Andrew Overholt <overholt at redhat.com>:
> * 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
>

Neither do I, and it's not obvious to me from the website[1] how to
get the source. Is it open source?

Just had a look back at RHBZ #486369 and it looks like the WTP effort
has stalled for now. Just not enough hours in the day.  :-(

[1] http://code.google.com/eclipse/


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Mat Booth