Re: [gentoo-soc] interested in Gentoo/Java IDE integration

[Brian Dolbec]

On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 15:25 +0000, Kyle Pan wrote:
> Hi Serkan,
>
> Firstly many thanks for your kind and quick reply:)
>
> > 1. get to know the mechanism of how eclipse in gentoo  finding system
> > library currently and fix it.(or develop a plug-in to find system
> > library? )( currently I'm still not clear how eclipse in gentoo find
> > system libraries.I'm going to investigate it if this  is right way to
> > the project)
> Yes, that's what I have in mind. We can already enumerate a list of
> installed libraries along with what jars, jni libs,source code javadoc
> it has. We can also get a list of dependencies of a library as well.
> This is mostly Python code and Portage is also in Python. Jython may
> help you in integration here.
>
> ---------I don't know whether this understanding is correct or not:
> the code that already have for emuerating a list of installed
> libraries(along with other things required) is writen in Python. And I
> can use the result of this code. And Could you expain more detail
> about "Python may help me integration".
> And also, Could you kindly give me an use case of this part of
> job(just like my explain the 2nd part blow), I think it would be very
> helpful to me to catch it more clearly and correctly:)
>
>
>
> > 2. let  PackageKit to work with Portage in order to automatically
> > download missed system library based on imports declaration when the
> > user is coding.
> I didn't plan this as part of the project. Please explain this in more details.
> ----------------------PackageKit is a package management tool that can
> use apt, yum, pcman etc as its back-end.Now I don't know if  it can
> use emerge backend and I'll verify it later.This part of job's mainly
> function can be described as the following use case:
> User A is coding in eclipse. He/She typed "import A.B.C.D;",which is a
> class/package in one of the System library but the library has not
> installed on the machine(of course ,portage tree should contains the
> library's ebuilds). Then thanks to the this part of the job, it is
> automactically downloaded and installed.
> I've also don't clear why  PackageKit should be used(I think revoking
> emerge is sufficient,though I'm not very sure,and what your opionion
> is?) Since PackageKit is metioned in idealist, so there should be some
>  reasons I not know for using it?
> Anyway, I believe addressing this use case letting it doing
> automatically is very meaningful, even PackageKit doesn't been
> used(just invoking emerge).
>
>

Packagekit already has a portage backend, so it can be used on a gentoo
system.  But I believe you have the wrong info there about needing to
use packagekit.  I would go with what Serkan says about java
dependencies and how they map to gentoo packages.



> PS.
> According to the idealist page ,I am required to take the action of "
> fix a real bug reported in Bugzilla to show that I can use the tools
> to make a meaningful change" before application and said my contract
> can help me determine which SCM and repository I should use for this.
> Would you mind help that tell me which SCM and repository and guide me
> instrctions to fix a proper bug?
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Best Regards,
> Kyle Pan
>
>
>


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