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How best to browse sources
Seems like there are a lot of questions that are hard to answer without
looking at the sources. Not a great state of affairs, but it would
certainly be nicer to browse the sources in Eclipse than in a generic file
explorer. The web site says the developers use Eclipse. But the source
download is not in the form of an Eclipse project, or even a set of Eclipse
projects, though it seems not too far off. Is there an easy way?
To partially answer my own question, I see that the svn repository is much
more in the shape I want. Or at least the trunk is. If I want to browse
the version corresponding to the 2.0 release, I'd guess I go to tags/2.0,
but there are no eclipse project files here!
Re: How best to browse sources
Posted by Greg Brown <gk...@verizon.net>.
Yeah, the wiki should probably include sections explaining how to set up Eclipse on both platforms (and probably Linux as well if there are any additional nuances).
On Feb 10, 2011, at 5:40 AM, Sandro Martini wrote:
>
> Sorry, a quick idea:
> probably something like my previous post could be put in our Wiki, near that
> for OS X, and referenced from our FAQ ... what do you think ?
>
> Bye,
> Sandro
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Re: How best to browse sources
Posted by Sandro Martini <sa...@gmail.com>.
Sorry, a quick idea:
probably something like my previous post could be put in our Wiki, near that
for OS X, and referenced from our FAQ ... what do you think ?
Bye,
Sandro
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Re: How best to browse sources
Posted by Greg Brown <gk...@verizon.net>.
Correct - that is the recommended way to ensure that these classes are available when building Pivot in Eclipse.
On Feb 10, 2011, at 5:36 AM, Sandro Martini wrote:
>
> Hi Greg,
> for what I remember we didn't include them because of redistribution
> constraints (Oracle and/or Apache): the plugin.jar required here to compile
> in inside the JRE.
> And the same for anyone who need Java Web Start features (jaws.jar, or
> jnlp.jar).
> But even it redistribution of those files would be possible, I'd prefer to
> not include them in our repository, to avoid handling (updating etc) them.
>
> In Eclipse, a simple way to solve this is to add plugin.jar (and if wanted
> even jaws.jar) to the JRE System Library of the current JRE, under
> Preferences/Java/Installed JREs (note that in eclipse is running form a JDK
> as should be, as a good option, use those jar from jdk-1.6.0_folder/jre/lib)
> in the workspace used to build Pivot sources.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Bye,
> Sandro
>
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Re: How best to browse sources
Posted by Sandro Martini <sa...@gmail.com>.
Hi Greg,
for what I remember we didn't include them because of redistribution
constraints (Oracle and/or Apache): the plugin.jar required here to compile
in inside the JRE.
And the same for anyone who need Java Web Start features (jaws.jar, or
jnlp.jar).
But even it redistribution of those files would be possible, I'd prefer to
not include them in our repository, to avoid handling (updating etc) them.
In Eclipse, a simple way to solve this is to add plugin.jar (and if wanted
even jaws.jar) to the JRE System Library of the current JRE, under
Preferences/Java/Installed JREs (note that in eclipse is running form a JDK
as should be, as a good option, use those jar from jdk-1.6.0_folder/jre/lib)
in the workspace used to build Pivot sources.
Hope this helps.
Bye,
Sandro
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Re: How best to browse sources
Posted by Greg Brown <gk...@verizon.net>.
Not sure why those files did not become part of the tags. I don't see any reason why they couldn't be - I'm guessing it was just an oversight because they are hidden (on UNIX, anyways).
On Feb 9, 2011, at 3:16 PM, Bill van Melle wrote:
> As Sandro noted, snapshot of all releases can be found under tags:
>
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/pivot/tags/
>
> As I said, the problem with that is that none of the Eclipse files are there (.project, .classpath, .settings). Which means that if I try to do Import | Existing Projects into Workspace, Eclipse thinks there are no projects there. Is there some reason they're in trunk but not in the snapshot?
>
> I guess I can browse in trunk for now, but I was hoping to browse something that exactly matched the published jars.
Re: How best to browse sources
Posted by Greg Brown <gk...@verizon.net>.
How to resolve that is explained in the BUILD file.
On Feb 9, 2011, at 3:28 PM, Bill van Melle wrote:
> By the way, even browsing trunk, Eclipse complains it can't find netscape.javascript.JSObject when compiling wtk/BrowserApplicationContext.java.
Re: How best to browse sources
Posted by Bill van Melle <bi...@gmail.com>.
By the way, even browsing trunk, Eclipse complains it can't
find netscape.javascript.JSObject when compiling
wtk/BrowserApplicationContext.java.
Re: How best to browse sources
Posted by Bill van Melle <bi...@gmail.com>.
>
> As Sandro noted, snapshot of all releases can be found under tags:
>
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/pivot/tags/
>
As I said, the problem with that is that none of the Eclipse files are there
(.project, .classpath, .settings). Which means that if I try to do Import |
Existing Projects into Workspace, Eclipse thinks there are no projects
there. Is there some reason they're in trunk but not in the snapshot?
I guess I can browse in trunk for now, but I was hoping to browse something
that exactly matched the published jars.
Re: How best to browse sources
Posted by Greg Brown <gk...@verizon.net>.
We don't currently have a dedicated 2.0 branch because we're only actively maintaining the 2.0 branch at the moment. As Sandro noted, snapshot of all releases can be found under tags:
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/pivot/tags/
On Feb 8, 2011, at 11:25 PM, Bill van Melle wrote:
> Seems like there are a lot of questions that are hard to answer without looking at the sources. Not a great state of affairs, but it would certainly be nicer to browse the sources in Eclipse than in a generic file explorer. The web site says the developers use Eclipse. But the source download is not in the form of an Eclipse project, or even a set of Eclipse projects, though it seems not too far off. Is there an easy way?
>
> To partially answer my own question, I see that the svn repository is much more in the shape I want. Or at least the trunk is. If I want to browse the version corresponding to the 2.0 release, I'd guess I go to tags/2.0, but there are no eclipse project files here!
Re: How best to browse sources
Posted by Sandro Martini <sa...@gmail.com>.
Hi,
> The web site says the developers use Eclipse.
Yes, I can confirm that we use Eclipse 3.5.2 or later, and on different
platforms.
> But the source download is not in the form of an Eclipse project, or even
> a set of Eclipse projects, though it seems not too far off. Is there an
> easy way?
Yes, because (under trunk or under tags/vX.x.x) there are all files for the
source distribution, in the standard Apache way, so in root you can find Ant
build file and other files for Licensing, Readme, etc.
Here you can find sources for the Release 2.0 (and for other releases 1
level up):
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/pivot/tags/v2.0/
To browse/test/compile in Eclipse the best is to download all projects under
trunk (for example in a dedicated workspace) from here:
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/pivot/trunk/
and tell to Eclipse to create the same projects in the workspace (keeping
the same name).
And Build all ...
But note that with this approach you will not have all the files in root
(outside projects), so if you want to build/package/etc from Ant (for
example without using an IDE) you will have to download those files by hand.
Otherwise you could download all the trunk in a folder, maybe using
TortoiseSVN (for example in a folder called pivot_trunk) and maybe after
"Import Projects from existing sources" in Eclipse.
Tell me if you need other info.
Bye,
Sandro
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