How to combine all the packages of the eclipse? - eclipse

As I need to develop java, php, c++, I use several eclipse packages.
so I try to simple to copy several packages into one, and then I use these option to start the eclipse:
1. -clean
2. osgi.checkConfiguration=true
but it doesn't work, I only find the last copied packages after the IDE start.

Get one of the packages from their site and use the Install new software... feature under the help menu.
I think the most straightforward way to get the modules for all of the languages to play nicely together, though I admire your DIY spirit.

Try to use Yoxos for building your custom Eclipse distribution.

From luxsie:
How to merge several setup packages of Eclipse?
Whom this is for?
The ones that can not hold back their temper any longer when trying to install another Eclipse function package. Right the installation speed from some countries is too slow to bear, also the Equinox P2 always try to connect the Download.Eclipse.org. Much to damn.. when your Internet connection closed or reset all of a sudden and got all downloaded files broken. Also OSGi based Eclipse plugins is chaos -- always have some conflict errors.
Oh that is another problem..
Do the following steps:
1 Download the Install Packages that you need from www.eclipse.org. Also please remember verify to see if that is correct package. I choosed J2EE with C/C++.
2 Unpack one package with uncompress softwares, such as 7-zip and WinRAR. unzip all the files to a directory you wanna install to. for example "D:\Eclipse\".
3 open Configurations. Files "\configuration\org.eclipse.equinox.source\source.info" and "\configuration\org.eclipse.equinox.simpleconfigurator\bundles.info" in the installation directory is the ones that need to be merged. also you need "\configuration\org.eclipse.update\platform.xml".
4 open the other packages and fetch their configuration files, and merge files.
to Bundles.info:
Open the bundle.info with any Functional Text Editor, copy all text begin from the line after "#version={Number}" and paste it to another. [{Number} means any Integer number.]
to Source.info:
Similiar with what you did with the bundle.info. If not modified, that line should be the 3rd line in the text file.
to Platform.xml:
Open the file, then find where "feature id=" starts just after the "site" node. Find the "/site" tag and copy all the text between them, paste to another file just before the "/site" tag.
[You can do the similiar also marked feature tags with artifacts.xml]
5 when merging i suggest you to make a new directory and when finished please remember copy the merged file to the one where should it be and overwrite. [I mean where it comes from]
Although not merge "platform.xml" will not cause any functional errors, it will make the About dialog with no button -- to ugly yeah?
[= =|||]Ugly is caused by the artifacts.xml in the installation directory...
6 Open all the package, find "plugins" and "features" directories.now extract!
first extract the one you want most. I extracted JEE package.
then extract the other ones. I don't see any problem whether Overwrite the ones or not.
7 do open a console window, and locale in the installation directory, and then execute "eclipse.exe".
Well, somebody ask me why i paid no attention to the Artifacts.xml in the installation directory. That's because Eclipse will never check the file. It seems to be when you want to update using zip files -- however this way is blocked for lacking site.xml file now.
Then guys, wait a several minutes for eclipse to do some sorting and cleaning job for the merged configurations.. and install your plugins!
INFO: if you face some problems after install a new plugin and restart.. that is because you haven't finish a complete artifacts.xml merging.
You may delete all the artifacts.xml 's header [document start to the "artifacts size = '{Number}'"] and its bottom [from "/artifacts" to document end]. just merge the left content. and make one file just contains the header and bottom, paste the merged one in.
Eh..maybe you can calculate the {Number}s' sum and correct the one in the final document.

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Add Enterprise Library 6 without powershell?

I've been trying to install Enterprise Library 6, and it's been a pain. I tried following Enterprise Library 6: Installation and VS2012 Configuration, but I'm having issues with the powershell command. I also tried opening install-packages.ps1 and pasting in powershell, and I keep continue errors. I'm not sure if it's my machine and the restrictions it has, but I don't want to go through this installation process just for one call to a stored procedure.
I rarely use powershell, and I don't want to start learning it today. Is there a way to just download the dlls needed and add them as reference to my project?
I had already added Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Data as reference, and the project builds well, but when it runs, I get an error with one of the methods. It seems that there are other dlls I need to add (Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Common), among others.
I just want to download these dlls and add them as reference. I don't want to go through any installation process.
Is this possible? Thanks.
I downloaded Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.ConfigConsoleV6.vsix. Then I opened in winrar, copy/pasted Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Common.dll to my bin folder, and added as reference to my project.
Then I downloaded enterpriselibrary.data.6.0.1304.nupkg from nuget.org and opened it with winrar. Then I copy/pasted Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Data.dll to my bin folder, and added as reference to my project.

Automatic SVN revision number?

I write Android stuff using Eclipse+the ADT plugin. For VCS I use SVN.
What I am trying to accomplish: have my program, in its 'About' screen, display the SVN revision number it was built from. Obviously, this better be automatic. We cannot assume the program will have network access when run so this info has to be known at compile time.
Today I've been researching this topic and seems like this seemingly common scenario is actually not so easy to do or I am missing something. Lets see:
1) first approach: write a 'pre-commit' SVN script that, on each commit, would update a little file, that would be named 'revision' and would be located in the root of my project. Then writing a function that would open this file, read the revision number and put it in the 'About' screen would be trivial.
This doesn't quite work as the file would be updated server-side. So imagine this scenario: I check out rev. 3708, modify, commit, pre-commit creates 'revision' with '3709' in it. I build - and my local 'revision' still contains '3708'. Not good.
2) I hear ( Getting SVN revision number into a program automatically ) that SVN has this clever feature that it is able to replace various magic strings in your files, one of then being 'Revision', if one sets appropriate SVN metadata on all files in a project under SVN control.
This does not quite work again, because of the problem mentioned by user 'Smashery' in the link above - namely, SVN will only replace the 'Revision' magic string in files that got changed during the last commit.
3) Write a 'pre-build' Eclipse script, and have it run 'svnversion /path/to/your/project' and save output of this in /path/to/your/project/revision.
This does not quite work again - I mean, I have tried and writing such script is actually surprisingly easy. If I were working on a single computer, it would have worked for me - but unfortunately I work on two computers, one Linux machine in home and another Windows machine at work. I keep switching machines every day (during the day Windows, in the evenings Linux at home).
The problem here is with Eclipse: as soon as you add a 'pre-build' script, it creates a new hidden directory in your project folder ( .externalToolBuilders ) , which, among other things, contains the absolute path to the script to run (obviously). This path cannot be the same on both of my machines (being Linux and Windows). In order for things to be automatic, I need to check this in to SVN, and as soon as I do, things will work only on one of my machines unless I keep manually correcting the path every day!
Any ideas?
Third way (slightly polished) can be and will be The Right Way, if you'll grok some things
Workplace specific settings must not be shared and stored in repository: ignore .externalToolBuilders on both locations but configure Eclipse differently according to your needs and settings
Except identical for all OSes svnversion (and don't forget ignore also /path/to/your/project/revision, because build-artifacts must not be part of repository) you may want to use more powerful somehow subwcrev (on Win-box) and svnrev (on Linux-box) in pre-build event - svnrev also contain some useful reading

How to send my project to a colleague?

My colleague and myself are fairly new to RubyMine and to Ruby. We use WinXP Pro.
I want to zip a small Ruby (non-Rails) project and either email it to my colleague or copy it to a share. Note that we are not currently using a single repository for RubyMine projects.
Edited: Please ignore everything above the line. It seems to be causing some generous responders to waste their time. I apologize for that.
Assume the post starts below this line.
I have no internet connection. I want to zip a small Ruby (non-Rails) test project, copy it to a floppy, and deliver it by hand to a friend. My friend has no internet connection.
I would like to confirm that all I need to do is to zip everything including, and below, the project root in Windows Explorer. (I'm assuming that the "project root" is the folder that contains the "gemfile".)
I'm assuming that the gemfile.lock will force my colleague's gems to match mine, even if one of his gems is more up to date than mine.
I'm assuming that the contents of RM's "External Libraries" will be recreated on my colleague's RM, without my needing to include these files in the ZIP.
I would be grateful for any advice.
Use a version control system like git or svn.

Synchronise files between Eclipse and FTP Site

I am currently coding with Eclipse PDT, and I need to synchronise the files on my workstation with the files on the FTP server.
I've installed RSE, but I can only download and edit files as far as I can see it. What I want to happen is when I hit save, the file is saved locally, and the file to be updated on the FTP site.
Any ideas of how I can achieve this?
Create an ant builder on your project. See this article about how to do that. The important things you should know after you read the article:
You can use Ant FTP task to
transfer the files.
You can define properties given by
the Eclipse platform to get project
root, list of changed files, change
type (add, modify, delete) and so on.
Use them wisely. You will need
project_loc, resource_loc and so on.
See picture at end to see how to get
other available variables that can be
passed to the script.
Tune your Ant script, since if it run
for each file update, then it can be
slow. If it is slow anyway, then you can create a builder plugin for eclipse, which is not so complicated. I created some before.
Be prepared, that ant script can get
not only one file as changed, but a
list.

Eclipse's local history...where are files saved?

Can someone explain how Eclipse's local history works?
I accidentally overwrote a file in a project but need to revert to an earlier version.
Is there a chance that Eclipse has the older file cached somewhere?
To complete CurtainDog's answer: from eclipse FAQ
Every time you modify a file in Eclipse, a copy of the old contents is kept in the local history. At any time, you can compare or replace a file with any older version from the history.
Although this is no replacement for a real code repository, it can help you out when you change or delete a file by accident.
Local history also has an advantage that it wasn’t really designed for: The history can also help you out when your workspace has a catastrophic problem or if you get disk errors that corrupt your workspace files.
As a last resort, you can manually browse the local history folder to find copies of the files you lost, which is a bit like using Google’s cache to browse Web pages that no longer exist.
Each file revision is stored in a separate file with a random file name inside the history folder. The path of the history folder inside your workspace is
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.history/
You can use your operating system’s search tool to locate the files you are looking for.
Note, if your need to import your local history into a new workspace, you will need both:
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.history
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.project
to have a functional local history in that new workspace.
Try right-clicking on the file in eclipse, and choose Replace With->Local History.
If there's history available, it'll show up as a list of edit times.
But more importantly, as pointed out in other answers, be sure to put your files in version control! SVN is pretty easy to set up (you don't need a server; it can just use the file system); use it even if you aren't sharing with others.
A tip: whenever you hear yourself say "yes!", check in all of your code. 10 minutes later, you'll be saying "how did I mess that up?"
If you have lost a full package structure due to accidental deletion or svn/cvs override, select the project> right click> Restore from local history => select the files.
VonC's answer has all the information you need for finding the location of your code backups. I would simply add that if you are on a Mac or Linux, you can do something like this:
$ cd [WORKSPACE]/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.history/
$ grep -rl "class Foo" . | xargs ls -lt
This will find all the versions of a file that contains a particular string (ie. "class Foo"), and sort them by date/time to easily find the most recent version.
You can use the link http://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_Where_is_the_workspace_local_history_stored%3F is very helpfull
Open the CVS view and you should see a filter for local history. You should then be able to right-click on the correct version and Get Contents or do a manual compare and merge. I'm not sure what the eclipse defaults are for keeping local history but there is a decent chance you'll be able to get your stuff back if you act quickly.