Archive for March, 2008
p2: Managing Plugins & Features
Last year, I blogged about how to manage your plugins and features with link files and extension locations. Suggested by Euxx, I thought I’d do a quick side-by-side comparison of what p2 provides vs. the old ways. As you’ll see, p2 supports all the old ways, plus a number of new ones. Kudos to the [...]
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Workspace Workarounds
Here are a couple pains and their band-aid solutions, which will hopefully be addressed in Eclipse 4.0.
Currently dealing with multiple projects with the same name (a project from the
trunk and a branch) is cumbersome because multiple workspaces are needed. [200097#c2]
In supporting 5 branches of EMF, I’ve found an easy workaround here. Rename the old branch [...]
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Jar Signing Tips
As of M5, most of the projects I’m responsible for building now include jar signing & packing. The rest will soon follow. Here are a few lessons I’ve learned.
Do not try to sign your jars between 00:00 and 01:00.
The following are not the same:
<include name=”**/org.eclipse.draw2d*” /><include name=”**/org.eclipse.draw2d*/*” /><include name=”**/org.eclipse.draw2d*/**” />
Forgetting the “-r” when zipping a [...]
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