Re: [Spindle-developer] Using Spindle 3.0 alphas with Eclipse 3.0 M5

[Geoff Longman <gl...@intelligentworks.com>]

Good suggestion. Its in 3.0.30 (coming soon)

Geoff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Sampaleanu" <co...@exis.com>
To: "Tapestry users" <ta...@jakarta.apache.org>
Cc: <sp...@lists.sourceforge.net>;
<gl...@intelligentworks.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 3:19 PM
Subject: [Spindle-developer] Using Spindle 3.0 alphas with Eclipse 3.0 M5


> The Spindle 3 alphas worked pretty well with Eclipse 3.0M4. With M5,
> things seemed to break, with some classes (mostly related to jface.text)
> not being found. I thought all was lost, as probably stuff had been
> refactored.
>
> Thanks to some pointers from some people on the Eclipse newsgroups, I
> managed to get Spindle 3.0.29 going with Eclipse 3.0 M5. It just
> requires getting it the jface.text classes.
>
> The easiest mechanism is to go into your Eclipse install, and inside your
>     org.eclipse.ui_3.0.0
> plugin underneath the plugins dir, in the <requires> element of the
> plugin.xml file, add the following line
>   <import plugin="org.eclipse.jface.text" export="true"/>
>
> This will essentially always bring in the jface.text classes, and from
> this point on Spindle seems to be happy (you may have to go to the
> Manage Configurations area and re-enable it).
>
> Now this may have performance implications. With the XMLBuddy plugin
> (also broken by M5), I was able to get the same effect just by going
> into that plugin's own plugin.xml file, and adding the line
>   <import plugin="org.eclipse.jface.text">
> into the requires section.
>
> That solution is better as it doesn't effect all of eclipse, just the
> individual plugin. Theorectically this could be done manually for
> Spindle too, but you'd have to do it for both of the main Spindle
> plugins and the solareclipse plugins that Spindle depends on. Given that
> Spindle is being updated pretty often, it would be better if Geoff added
> these lines himself, with the optional attribute set to true, so it
> doesn't break inside of Eclipse 2.1x...
>
> Regards,
> Colin
>
>
>
>
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