Archive for June, 2009
Galileo should go down …
… as being the smoothest release I have ever participated in, despite the major constraint I had this year: no extra bandwidth shall be purchased.
Here is how we pulled this off:
1. More bandwidth. Since we got sooo many new Friends of Eclipse, I bent the rules and added 12 megabits of bandwidth [1]. But — [...]
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Bittorrent worked great!
So I needed to install Eclipse on my Mac at home and today was the day. Doh. Release day. I decided to give bittorrent a shot to see how things went. Well it took about 10 minutes to download and I was getting sometimes in excess of 800K per second according to Transmission. This really [...]
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Not cool
This site makes it look like they’re serving up Eclipse 3.5 already. Links all go to download.eclipse.org.
http://www.computerbase.de/downloads/software/entwicklung/eclipse_sdk/
Not cool.
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Get ahead of the line for Galileo
Galileo will be available tomorrow, but Friends of Eclipse and BitTorrent users can get it now. Beat the rush!
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Eclipse IDE for PHP Developers
A new IDE package will be avaible for Galileo this year: a PHP IDE. This package will include Eclipse 3.5, the PDT, Webtools and Mylyn.
I’ve been waiting a long time for this. This will make working fun again*. Get it on June 24, when Galileo is launched. Or, become a Friend of Eclipse and get [...]
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Design a Galileo Wallpaper
If you have modest graphics design skills, you can likely create a Galileo Wallpaper in less than five minutes. If you attach it to this bug, then your name will be forever etched in the Eclipse Hall of Fame.
You can use some of Nathan’s work on this page as a starting point. Perhaps Nathan can [...]
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Babel language packs for Galileo need testing
I have finally fixed most of our build process, and we’re building language packs once again. Just download the Galileo language pack(s), unzip them into your dropins folder and launch Eclipse with the -nl (locale) switch. Report any problems against Babel.
We’re not producing a p2 Update site for Galileo yet since we still have some [...]
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Galileo rush-hour traffic
Can you spot the Friend of Eclipse?
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