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DON'T PANIC
I am sorry I could not resist using those large, friendly letters in the title of this post.I have recently seen a Twitter message like this:It looks like all the rumor is started by this post on...
View ArticleFedora Eclipse Build: Introduction
It has been almost a month, since I stared my work for Red Hat.I am taking care of Eclipse Build, which is even more complicated than regular Eclipse build (yes, Kim, that *is* possible).The first and...
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Life-saving Eclipse functionality
As you know, I am working on Eclipse Fedora Build. Eclipse 3.8 ("almost M5") will get soon into Fedora Rawhide repository very soon.Testing the build involved running new Eclipse and a number of of...
View ArticleMaking P2 working with RPM - milestone I
One of the biggest benefits of RPM is that it allows you to verify your installation and discover any modifications that had been made to your system with (or usually without) your...
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Mylyn hidden gem - finding tasks to read.
We all know that feeling, having a dozen or so of incoming changes in Mylyn tasks, and a few hundreds of them in the list. Scrolling the whole list just to find those changed tasks may be a real pain.I...
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Little things that matter
Installing Eclipse in Fedora is deadly easy. It is enough to type $ sudo yum groupinstall Eclipse$ eclipseto enjoy latest and greatest Eclipse installation, including all major projects (Eclipse...
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Making P2 working with RPM - last milestone
Maybe you remember my last post about making P2 and RPM working robustly together. Having the Eclipse Platform M7 packaged in Fedora, and Fedora frozen, I have finally found time to look at that work...
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Eclipse in Fedora - 0 day update
Eclipse bundled by Fedora will contain additional fixes that are not yet a part of Juno release:1. Predefined update sitesYou may say that's all Eclipses have that, but it is not quite true. You have...
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Improving Eclipse dropins - What P2 and polish politcs had in common
This week started for me with sounds of well known tune:Hello console, my old friend,I've come to work with you again,Because the reconciler softly creeping,Left its staff while I was dreaming,And the...
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Mylyn and KDE keys conflict
Mylyn allows to you reveal what is inside of a folder by clicking on it while holding the 'Alt' key. For some reason it worked for me in Fedora as 'Fullscreen off'. Now I know why :-). The reason is...
View ArticleDebugging Fedora builds with mock
The problem that every build engineer faces sooner or later is: what packages introduces dependency to foo to our build?The commonly used build tool amongst Fedora packages is fedpkg, which allow for...
View ArticleCreating noarch packages with arch-specific dependencies.
If you look at Eclipse package, you will notice that despite being written mostly in Java, it is arch-specific, and therefore it is installed either into /usr/lib/eclipse/ or /usr/lib64/eclipse/. This...
View ArticleEclipse Platform CBI build just hit Fedora!
I think that by now almost everyone had heard of Tycho - a maven-like approach for building OSGi bundles, and the CBI initiative, which is about making Eclipse builds as easy as possible.I'm proud to...
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Freedom is about contributions
The most annoying thing about Fedora is that it breaks from time to time. Failures vary in their scope. Sometimes they're really subtle (false security alerts) and sometimes I really want to check if...
View ArticleEclipseCon Europe 2012 - Impressions
This year EclipseCon was extremely interesting. There was a lot of talks, but three main topics will remain in my mind for longer. I could even call them "surprises".JavaFXKai Todter and Tom Shindl...
View ArticleDo you still use x86 arch?
The title is deliberately misleading, because this (r)evolution has not happened yet, although signs of x86 empire falling down are ubiquitous - I bet you hold one in your pocked, or maybe you even...
View ArticleInstalling ADT into Fedora Eclipse
ADT have quite a long history of not working with Fedora Eclipse due to the various ClassCastExceptions and ClassNotFoundExceptions. Majority of those problems is caused by a simple fact - JVM provides...
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Fedora Eclipse - update to a snapshot version
I decided to update Eclipse version to the repository snapshot and push this new build into Fedora 18. It's available in updates-testing repository. This is not something that is welcome in Fedora...
View ArticleEclipse Git update
New Year gift to Fedora users: yet another performance update, this time to EGit and JGit, has been just submitted.It contains a new upstream release 2.2.0 with an impressive number of new features and...
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That's just unbelievable
I never thought it will happen. Thank you all, who made this. And thank you all, who caused this (including OS providers).Counter Strike 1.6 running on Fedora 18Instructions how to do that will follow...
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