Re: [fedora-java] src.zip's and rpms in Eclipse

[Andrew Overholt <overholt@redhat.com>]

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On Wed, 2006-29-11 at 08:28 -0800, Anthony Green wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 18:57 -0600, Phil Muldoon wrote:
> >  Is 
> > there a Wiki page, guide .. or general advice to accomplish this as it 
> > is done via the Classpath rpm?
> 
> I was under the impression that Eclipse finds the target JDK's src.zip
> based on well known conventions of JDK layout (which we follow in
> java-1.4.2-gcj-compat).  As far as I know there's no way to do this for
> random jar files.  You need to manually attach the source jar/zip to the
> jar file within Eclipse.

No, I think it can be done for any jar.  Ben will know, though.

> Perhaps it makes sense to add a manifest file tag identifying the
> location of the jar file's source code.  Then Eclipse could be taught to
> look for the source itself.  Maybe this is something Andrew and team can
> tackle as part of their new Eclipse Linux packaging effort at
> eclipse.org.

Har-har :)

Andrew

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