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Karl Trygve Kalleberg wrote:
[...]
| (When I say extension, I mean feature or plugin).
|
| It is indeed the case that Eclipse requires auxiliary extension
locations to
| have the directory laying random/path/prefix/eclipse/{plugins,features}.
|
| However, the "random/path/prefix" may be whatever you like. Eclipse
will by
| default only detect installed extensions in the main eclipse
| directory /usr/lib/eclipse-3
| (or /usr/{lib,share}/eclipse3/{features,plugins}). Auxilary locations
may be
| added to the "auto search path" by adding .link files in
| /usr/share/eclipse3/links.
|
| Each link file looks like
| path=/some/random/path
|
| In this fashion, you should be able to host each new extension in its own
| place, if desired, as long as it installs a (uniquely named) link file
into
| the eclipse links dir.
|
| Another note: Since 3.1 is backwards binary-compatible with 3.0, but
the user
| may want to have 3.0 and 3.1 installed at the same time, it may prove
| desirable for 3.0-compatible extensions to install .link-files in both
the
| eclipse3 and eclipse3.1 links directories.
|
| -- Karl T
|
| PS. I'm the maintainer of Eclipse on Gentoo.
Karl,
~ If you are interested, a group is getting started for Debian
packaging of Eclipse 3 under Joerg Wendland[0]. Please contact him if
you would like to get involved. We would welcome the assistance and
insight.
[0] - https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-eclipse/
Regards,
- --
Barry Hawkins
All Things Computed
site: www.alltc.com
weblog: www.yepthatsme.com
Registered Linux User #368650
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