[fedora-java] New Eclipse stuff in rawhide

[Andrew Overholt]

Hi,

Some exciting new stuff has landed in rawhide over the past few days:
eclipse-bugzilla, eclipse-changelog, and eclipse-pydev!  If you don't have
it already, try something like this:

yum --enablerepo=development install \
  eclipse-{bugzilla,jdt,changelog,pydev} java-1.4.2-gcj-compat{,-devel,-src}

eclipse-changelog is a plugin written by Phil Muldoon to write ChangeLog
entries from within Eclipse.  This started off as one of those "scratching
an itch" projects that has grown into something incredibly useful.  Phil's
doing all his development out of CVS at sources.redhat.com.  Jeff Pound was
kind enough to grace the world with his HTML wizardry (it's better than I
could have done :) and has put some instructions and information here:

http://sources.redhat.com/eclipse

eclipse-bugzilla is a plugin to interact with Bugzilla systems (duh).  It
was started by IBM and is now being developed by Jeff Pound here at Red
Hat.  It's a really great plugin and everyone has lots of cool plans for
it.  There's still lots of cool additions and integration with other
plugins (like the ChangeLog plugin, for example) that could be done, so
check it out from CVS (see URL above for instructions) and send Jeff
patches and/or ideas.

I've put some screenshots of the ChangeLog and Bugzilla plugins (and this
message) here:

http://overholt.ca/wp

eclipse-pydev is the PyDev plugin (http://pydev.sourceforge.net/) packaged
up.  I haven't had much time to play with it myself, but it looks great and
I know some python developers out there are excited to get started with it.

As usual, if you find bugs, please file them in RH bugzilla under Product:
Fedora Core, Version: devel, Component: eclipse.

In other news, Michael Koch has started an effort to close the gap between
Eclipse and projects that use the autotools.  He's calling it antiauto and
you can check it out here:

http://www.kaffe.org/~mkoch/antiauto/

We've talked about doing an autotools plugin for a long time, but this
fills the gap nicely in the meantime.

Enjoy!

Andrew