EclipseME source moved to Subversion

Over the last few years, EclipseME CVS on Sourceforge has become increasingly cluttered with projects and folders that are no longer in use. This has been confusing for those that are interested in perusing the EclipseME sources. I’ve long considered switching to Subversion for EclipseME source control. The combination of these situations have finally given me enough of a push to move EclipseME over to Subversion on Sourceforge. A few details of this transition follow.

The EclipseME source code that resides in CVS will continue to reside in CVS for the foreseen future. This can be used for historic purposes. The source for each version of EclipseME have been tagged along the way, so it can be used to find changes from version to version.

The source code for version 1.6.2 was moved to Subversion and tagged as such within the tree. New releases can be compared against the tagged version of 1.6.2 to find the changes. The organization of source control has changed as well. Within the SVN trunk, you will find:

• eclipseme-src
  This is the actual sources for the Eclipse features and plugins. They are organized as they are to support the new build procedures which may lead to nightly builds in the future.
• eclipseme-web
  This folder contains the static portions of the EclipseME web site (much of eclipseme.org is driven dynamically by Wordpress)
• eclipseme-tools
  This folder contains various source code and tools that exist outside of the Eclipse plugin code for the project.

Checking Out for Development

Development of Eclipse plugins and features must happen in projects at the top level within the workspace. With the new folder structure, the feature and plugins are defined as subdirectories of the eclipseme-src folder. In order to check out the source code for development, use the team project set file located at https://eclipseme.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/eclipseme/trunk/eclipseme-src/EclipseMEDevelopment.psf.

In order to use the PSF file, take the following steps:

1. Choose Import… from the top-level File menu
2. Expand the Team category in the Import dialog
3. Select “Team Project Set” from the import dialog and press Next.
4. Browse to or enter the project set file that you downloaded from the link above.
5. Press Finish.

Wait for Eclipse to finish downloading the projects and you should be set to debug/develop the EclipseME code.

Building

For the moment, it should be possible run the “Build EclipseME Site Archive.launch” file in the build directory from within Eclipse to generate the EclipseME site archive. The new build structure will be covered in a later entry.