Re: Building a standalone WOLips IDE

From: Jeremy Matthews (jeremymatthew..ac.com)
Date: Fri Nov 30 2007 - 09:24:41 EST

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    Was considering that, but some folks are running the bare minimum in
    terms of RAM...but I might offer a small GUI app to more easily
    manager eclipse environmental settings...

    Thoughts?

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    On Nov 30, 2007, at 7:59 AM, Kieran Kelleher <kieran_list..ac.com>
    wrote:

    > A custom eclipse ini file might be useful too in the custom install.
    > Memory increase? -clean?
    >
    > On Nov 29, 2007, at 10:36 PM, Jeremy Matthews wrote:
    >
    >> FYI....the installer is just about to reach an open beta status (OS
    >> X 10.5.1 & WO 5.4 - only). Probably next week.
    >>
    >> It will include the following components:
    >> 1) Eclipse 3.3.2 (Stream) + Basic WOLips integration & Configuration
    >> 2) Latest nightly builds for WOLips
    >> 3) JavaEOGenerator + Templates
    >> 4) launchd arguments for auto-initiation of wotaskd and javamonitor
    >> upon boot
    >>
    >> We're just trying to wrap up a few bugs left in the IDE settings,
    >> and manage the mess that the new version of PackageMaker leaves
    >> behind...it has a nasty habit of "forgetting" an application bundle
    >> inside a folder (which is fine, unless you actually need to use
    >> Eclipse!)...and wreaking small havoc with filesystem
    >> permissions....repeatedly.
    >>
    >> Thanks,
    >> jeremy
    >>
    >> On Nov 29, 2007, at 9:17 PM, Mike Schrag wrote:
    >>
    >>>> So I imported the plugs-in with Import-> Plug-ins and Fragments,
    >>>> I now have all plug-ins as projects in Eclipse.
    >>> I have never done this step ... I don't even know what it actually
    >>> does.
    >>>
    >>>> I also imported WOLips source (from Subversion) into Eclipse.
    >>>>
    >>>> Next step: adding a WOLips.product file into the woproject/wolips
    >>>> folder. From this place, I am able to run the standalone IDE
    >>>> with "Launch an Eclipse application". BUT if I try to export the
    >>>> product with the "Eclipse Product export wizard" and I run the
    >>>> exported IDE, I always get:
    >>>>
    >>>> 07-11-29 20:32:43 [0x0-0x1d01d].org.eclipse.eclipse[2107]
    >>>> Exception in thread "main"
    >>>> 07-11-29 20:32:43 [0x0-0x1d01d].org.eclipse.eclipse[2107]
    >>>> java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/eclipse/equinox/launcher/
    >>>> JNIBridge
    >>>> 07-11-29 20:32:43 [0x0-0x1d01d].org.eclipse.eclipse[2107]
    >>>> Exception in thread "main"
    >>>> 07-11-29 20:32:43 [0x0-0x1d01d].org.eclipse.eclipse[2107]
    >>>> java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/eclipse/equinox/launcher/Main
    >>>> 07-11-29 20:32:48 com.apple.launchd[356]
    >>>> ([0x0-0x1d01d].org.eclipse.eclipse[2107]) Exited with exit code:
    >>>> 255
    >>> I don't know what this is -- never seen it ... You should checkout
    >>> woproject/wolips/entityModeler to see how Entity Modeler builds,
    >>> but there are definitely oddities in this process. Eclipse
    >>> product deploy wants to overwrite build.xml files with its own
    >>> temp build.xml (and then delete them, which is super retarded),
    >>> but build.xml's are required to actually make a wolips build, so I
    >>> don't know if you'll run into problems or not. Entity Modeler
    >>> only needs a subset of the plugins, so I don't know what happens
    >>> if you try to do this for all of them. I also don't know what
    >>> happens if you try to make a wolips product and then try to do an
    >>> upgrade from the Eclipse update site, whether it actually installs
    >>> the features properly or not necessary to know which build number
    >>> is installed. I have a feeling you're going to be fighting this
    >>> one. Also, Jeremy Matthews is working on (basically has a) WOLips
    >>> installer package with all the parts. The only thing that's
    >>> different is that he doesn't have an overridden welcome page, but
    >>> honestly I'm not sure it's worth the pain to go through this
    >>> eclipse deploy process just for that, but I'll let you be the
    >>> judge of your own pain threshold.
    >>>
    >>> ms
    >>>
    >>
    >



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