[Nix-dev] Eclipse packaging

[Sander van der Burg - EWI]

I removed the comments of my eclipse package in all-packages.nix for the following reasons:

- I'd like to have Eclipse installed when I type nix-env -i, I don't want to download it myself and put it in my HOME dir. That's where we have the Nix package manager for, right?
- Actually, you can use the Eclipse updater when you want to install plugins this way. I just did it myself by downloading the Eclipse PHP development tools and they seem to work fine. The plugins are saved in my workspace and it works.
- My eclipse package integrates nicely in the KDE application menu.

I also have some ideas to support plugins through using Nix expressions which I preferably want to use in the future. Basically the approach I have in mind consists of unpacking ZIP files in the dropins/ folder of eclipse. This directory location can also be changed at runtime. I'll look into this in the future.

-----Original Message-----
From: nix-dev-bounces at cs.uu.nl on behalf of Marc Weber
Sent: Tue 11/3/2009 3:50 PM
To: nix-dev
Subject: Re: [Nix-dev] Eclipse packaging
 
Hi Ludo,

You found it so it works pretty well :-)

So what's your problem with this "package" ?
What are you missing ?

Marc Weber

Excerpts from ludo's message of Tue Nov 03 12:18:12 +0100 2009:
> Hello Nixers!
> 
> Sander van der Burg <S.vanderBurg at tudelft.nl> writes:
> 
> > You can view the changes in this commit at:
> >    https://svn.nixos.org/viewvc/nix?rev=18074&view=rev
> >
> > Modified:
> >    nixpkgs/trunk/pkgs/applications/editors/eclipse-classic/default.nix
> >    nixpkgs/trunk/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
> >
> > Log:
> > Enabled my eclipse package again, since I want to have eclipse installed when typing nix-env -i. BTW. the eclipse plugins can be installed this way either
> 
> [...]
> 
> > +  eclipseNewer = import ../applications/editors/eclipse-classic {
> > +    inherit stdenv fetchurl patchelf makeDesktopItem freetype fontconfig jre;
> > +    inherit (gtkLibs) glib gtk;
> > +    inherit (xlibs) libX11 libXext libXrender libXtst;
> > +  };
> > +
> >    /* commenting out eclipse - Have a look at eclipseRunner - Marc Weber
> >  
> >      Reason: You can get Eclipse in many prepacked variations on eclipse.org
> 
> I *think* this calls for more coordination among the Eclipse nixers.
> Another example of misusing the VCS logs and 'all-packages.nix' as a
> communication means.  :-)
> 
> Thanks,
> Ludo'.
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