On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 3:24 AM, Peter Luttrell <peter_at_ideaj.com> wrote:
> I'm very new to Eclipse plugin development, but not new to Java. I want to
> make a very slight modification to subclipse, in particular how one of the
> decorator variables displays it's output.
>
> I've downloaded the code and made my simple change. When I launch the Dev
> instance of Eclipse from Eclipse, I can see my change but many things are
> broken and I have no idea why. I even reverted my code and I still have the
> same errors, but I think these issues are something to do with how Eclipse
> launches itself.
>
I'd get this working first. I've never had a problem doing this. Without
knowing the error hard to say what the problem is. If it is related to
Subclipse, then I'd probably make sure you have all our projects in your
workspace. Also note, that our trunk code is for Subclipse 1.10. So you
should have the 1.8.x branch checked out if that is the version you are
trying to work with.
Make sure the Eclipse launcher is configured to use all workspace plugins.
The defaults are what I use.
I then re-made my changes and then exported the plugin using the File ->
> Export -> Plug-in Development -> Deployable plug-ins and fragments, which
> naturally generated a JAR. I copied this into my
> {eclipse-install-dir}/dropins, restarted Eclipse and nothing happened, in
> other words I couldn't see my change. Not knowing if the dropins weren't
> working (I don't have any others), or what, I then proceeded to remove the
> current version of org.tigris.subversion.subclipse.ui_1.8.21.jar in plugins
> and drop my new one into plugins. Then I restarted Eclipse and went to
> Preferences and SVN was not an option under Team. I'm assuming this means
> there was a problem loading my changes. I've checked
> {workspace}/.metadata/.log, but there's not much of anything in there.
>
I do not do stuff like that and would not touch dropins with a 10-foot pole
so cannot help you. If I wanted to test this way, I would increment the
version by adding a .1 to the end and then build an update site that I
install from via the normal install process.
There is no reason for launching the runtime to not work though, so I would
not move past that option until it worked.
--
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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