[kepler-dev] Re: [SDM-SPA] Setting up Eclipse to access the Kepler repository

[Zhengang Cheng]

Thanks Dave,
This will make life a lot easier for us to setup eclipse. I am checking out
the new version of Eclipse.

Zhengang

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Buttler" <buttler1 at llnl.gov>
To: "Matt Jones" <jones at nceas.ucsb.edu>
Cc: "Zhengang Cheng" <zcheng at eos.ncsu.edu>; <kepler-dev at ecoinformatics.org>
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 5:45 PM
Subject: Re: [kepler-dev] Re: [SDM-SPA] Setting up Eclipse to access the
Kepler repository


> I think that Zhengang was using Tortoise through Eclipse as the
> communication mechanism.  Setting that up looked quite complex to me,
> and I have never tried that configuration.  This was necessary because
> Eclipse 2.1 only supported SSH1 out of the box.  The more recent
> versions of Eclipse have an option to enable SSH2.  This makes CVS
> repository exploring extremely nice -- you can configure the repository
> once, and the IDE will keep track of the versions, which files have been
> updated, which files need to be committed, and it provides a nice
> graphical (tree) view of the CVS repository.
>
> It looks like all of this type of information could go into a web page
> in the Kepler repository. It would include
> * setting up eclipse
> * checking out Kepler
> and it could later include information on
> * creating  a patch
> * submitting a patch for inclusion in the Kepler repository (under
> discretion of the developers)
>
> If people think this would be useful, I could hack up a simple Web page
> that gathers all the information on this topic and send it to Ilkay (or
> Xiaowen when she gets her write access) for inclusion.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> Matt Jones wrote:
>
> > Unless he can use relative paths in the eclipse config, its unlikely
> > that his eclipse configuration will work for others because they'll
> > have different locations for the kepler checkout.  So I'm not sure its
> > particularly useful as a checkin, unless there is other info other
> > than the locations of the jar files.  Maybe he could add a description
> > to the README or the website on how to set up the Eclipse environment
> > as an alternative?
> >
> > Also, TortoiseCVS is quite simple -- I can usually download the sw,
> > configure it, and check out a module in less than 5 minutes.
> > Subsequent checkouts are of course even faster.  Are you using a
> > recent version? Maybe an upgrade would be in order if so.  If that's
> > not it, what are you having difficulties with?  Maybe one of us can
help.
> >
> > Matt
> >
> > Zhengang Cheng wrote:
> >
> >> Dear Dave,
> >>
> >>> From outside like us, we need to set eclipse to access through SSH.
> >>
> >> The method I know is trhough TortoiseCVS and quite complex. Do you
> >> know a
> >> easy way to access CVS via SSH?
> >> The outline you gave is great, mine is more complex. I think it may
> >> be good
> >> that you check in all the configurations also into CVS, so we can use
> >> directly without the need for configuring path etc.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Zhengang
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "David Buttler" <buttler1 at llnl.gov>
> >> To: "Ilkay Altintas" <altintas at sdsc.edu>
> >> Cc: <sdm-dev at sdsc.edu>
> >> Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 4:20 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [SDM-SPA] Setting up Eclipse to access the Kepler
> >> repository
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> Sure.
> >>> It probably needs to be polished a little bit.  Maybe after Zhengang
> >>> tries it he can tell be what parts do or don't work.
> >>>
> >>> Dave
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Ilkay Altintas wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Hi David,
> >>>>
> >>>> This is great info for Eclipse users.
> >>>> Can we put this on the downloads website?
> >>>>
> >>>> Best,
> >>>> Ilkay
> >>>>
> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> From: sdm-dev-admin at sdsc.edu [mailto:sdm-dev-admin at sdsc.edu]On
> >>>> Behalf Of
> >>>> David Buttler
> >>>> Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 11:50 AM
> >>>> To: sdm-dev at sdsc.edu
> >>>> Subject: [SDM-SPA] Setting up Eclipse to access the Kepler repository
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I have been playing around with Eclipse to get it to the point
> >>>> where it
> >>>> will compile the kepler code as it stands.
> >>>>
> >>>> Here are the steps that work for me:
> >>>> 1) check kepler out of CVS
> >>>> 2) bring up the properties page for the kepler project
> >>>> 3) select the java build path
> >>>> 3) select the source tab and select the following directories as
> >>>> source
> >>>> directories
> >>>> -- kepler/src
> >>>> -- kepler/src/exp
> >>>> -- kepler/dynsrc
> >>>>
> >>>> Note that you will have to make sure that the directory /exp is
> >>>> excluded
> >>>> under the src directory
> >>>>
> >>>> 4) select the libraries tab and add the necessary jars (some of which
> >>>> are external jars from the Ptolemy directory)
> >>>>
> >>>> You should be able to understand most of this by looking at my
> >>>> .classpath file for the kepler project, which I have attached
> >>>>
> >>>> If you have any questions, let me know.
> >>>>
> >>>> Dave
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >
>