Archive for the 'errata' Category
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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Mailing List Digestion
Props to Karl for finding & mentioning this. Apologies in advance if this post smacks of “no good deed goes unpunished”, in that the mention of it has yielded this bug.
In addition to the regular mailing list archives at Eclipse.org, there’s now a new way to get your archives, whenever you need to know when [...]
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You got 3.4 in your 3.3!
Damn. While I did manage to get PDT 1.0 to run on 3.4, I managed to break Update Manager because:
In 3.3.1.1, I now have a working Mylyn 2.2 which prereqs 3.4 (so can’t be updated, but does work). This prevents any other updates, like PDT 1.0 -> 1.0.1.
In 3.4, I have EMF 2.4, WTP 3.0 [...]
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Liberate tutume ex illa sollicitudo
Addendum to this morning’s post:
As Ed correctly points out, Ganymede M3 is not a Release in the sense of a it being a Gold Master (GM) though it is generally available (GA) if you know where to look.
However, all the synonyms I’ve found have odd connotations associated with them…
Emancipation? Say it with me in [...]
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Forgive me Update Manager, for I have sinned
Never one to shy away from admitting my mistakes, I’d like to draw attention to something that could have been handled more cleanly: migration of EMF and EMFT into Modeling.
Two bugs have been raised (and since closed) on this topic:
Bug 170402: EMF Updates get “403 Forbidden”
Bug 205051: EMFT update site is obsolete
The problem, ultimately, is [...]
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