Hi,
I am the current
maintainer of Eclipse (Europa) on Gentoo Linux. I do need to establish
a working relationship with upstream, as some of the bugs I am faced
are quite complex and I feel I won't be able to solve them without some
help or documentation about Eclipse inner workings.
So I am writing to this list in the hope of establishing contact.
If this is not the appropriate place, please redirect me to the correct
one. I already posted to the linux-distro Eclipse ML but did not get
much help yet (as people there are not upstream).
Here is a copy of a post I made to the forums, but did not receive any answer:
I am faced
with a Junit bug. The Junit 4 version bundled with Eclipse is normally
4.3, but on Gentoo we use 4.4. 4.4 has a dependency on some of hamcrest
classes.
Thus currently when trying to load a Junit 4 test on Gentoo Eclipse, a CNF
exception occurs regarding the hamcrest classes.
So I tried to fiddle with the manifest in the Junit 4 bundle to include a
dependency to our local system hamcrest jar. However so far I have not
been successful.
My questions are:
1) Am I on the right path at all? Eg, if the user adds a Junit library via
the normal Eclipse mechanism (Configure Build Path -> Add Library ->
JUnit), will the OSGi framework resolves the dependencies or not? If the
only effect of adding junit this way is to add an entry to the project
classpath, I guess not.
2) Normally the junit bundles are exploded, eg in a folder. I tried to jar
the folder, removed the Bundle-ClassPath OSGi header attribute. But then
something strange happens: everytime I load Eclipse, it creates in
/home/elvanor/.eclipse/org.eclipse.platform_3.3.0_1169174242/configuration/org.eclipse.osgi/bundles/34/1/.cp
the contents of this jar. When I add the Junit library via the mechanism I
described, it shows a junit.jar file which is not present (as I removed
it, but also removed it from the Bundle-ClassPath). Then nothing works at
all, eg I cannot even start a Junit test.
So what's happening exactly, what is Eclipse doing?
Thanks for helping,
Jean-Noel
