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Building the Oxide plug in

ianbollinger edited this page Oct 17, 2012 · 8 revisions

Building the Oxide plug-in

If you would rather install the plug-in without the hassle of building it, you can download the plug-in from https://github.com/ianbollinger/oxide/downloads to your eclipse/dropins folder. Otherwise, continue reading.

Prerequisites

  • Java 7.0 (currently tested on OpenJDK)
  • Maven 3

Building

$ git clone git://github.com/ianbollinger/oxide.git
$ cd oxide
$ mvn

Installation

Copy the contents of the build/ folder to your Eclipse dropins/ folder.

Questions

Why isn't there an Eclipse update site?

When I last investigated the issue, GitHub seemed to disapprove of using their site hosting for this purpose. Also, the project won't go on Eclipse Marketplace until it's at least out of an alpha stage. A proper Eclipse (p2) update site is certainly planned, however.

Why does building take forever?

Maven has to download the entirety of the internet in jar format before Oxide can build. It's enterprise-y.