(shamelessly copied from DaveMalcolm's page at http://live.gnome.org/Eclipse)

Eclipse

What is Eclipse?

Eclipse is an awesome IDE for creating apps, in various languages. It has a GTK+ UI that is much more accesible to regular programmers from a Windows environment than the tools traditionally used by FOSS hackers.

It is currently best for developing apps in Java, but support for C, C++, C# and Python is rapidly catching up.

It was originally a (very) large body of code that IBM open-sourced. There is now a large community of companies and developers using and extending Eclipse.

It has its own Open Source license (the Eclipse Public Library, or EPL).

It is shipped in FedoraCore (>= 4). Plug-ins will be added to Fedora as time permits or as people do the necessary work. ;)

Fedora Eclipse

Fedora Eclipse is a community project encompassing everything Eclipse-related in Fedora. We ship the Eclipse SDK, CDT, as well as the PyDev, ChangeLog, and Bugzilla plugins. We are working on making plugin packagin easier, and also on packaging more plugins.

Would you like to help?

Visit our current website . Talk to us on IRC or the fedora-devel-java mailing list. Package a plug-in for Fedora!

Plug-ins We Ship

/* Please keep these in alphabetical order */

Autotools (part of CDT SRPM) CMakeed -- Editor for CMake files CDT ChangeLog EclEmma -- Code coverage tool to help you enhance your unit tests. EMF -- Eclipse Modeling Framework GEF -- Eclipse Graphical Editing Framework (not the Visual Editor ) MoreUnit -- Helper for writing more and better unit tests. Mylyn -- a task-focused UI for Eclipse with bugzilla and trac integration. Photran -- Fortran support for Eclipse PyDev RPM Specfile Editor RPM Specfile Generator -- This plugin makes packaging other plugins really easy. Shelled -- Editor for shell scripts Subclipse -- support for working with Subversion repositories

Coming soon in rawhide:

BIRT review request DTP ~~review request~~ OProfile SystemTap GUI review request Valgrind

Plug-ins We'd Like To Ship

BIRT
- all of it needs DTP and WTP
- could ship a stripped-down version in the meantime
DTP
- Package of lpgjavaruntime
- Fix build with lucene 2 and submit it upstream
- Fix build with java 6 - Preferably there will be stubs for all methods that appear in java 6 interfaces.
- ~~review request: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484676~~ package built with just a few features
WTP
- probably needs some non-Eclipse deps
Valgrind
- needs BIRT
- see Features/EclipseProfilingTools
OProfile
- could go in now
- see Features/EclipseProfilingTools

Contact

Fedora Eclipse Website

Most of the Fedora "free java" people hang out on #fedora-java on freenode . There are also people on #classpath also on Freenode. Community around Eclipse Linux tools is emerging now and developers are hanging on #eclipse-linux on freenode.

Fedora Java Mailing list

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