Sweet Eclipse

Sweet Eclipse is a project in which the reliable Eclipse platform meets modern UI techniques to provide better user experience.

Check out Sweet Eclipse website for more information.

Build a Package Locally

It's easy to run the build locally! All you need is Maven and then you need to tell Maven which package(s) to build via profile. Currently we provide only java package against Eclipse Mars.1 (4.5.1). You can build it using following command from the root of the Git repository:

mvn clean verify -Psweet.package.java -Declipse.simultaneous.release.repository="http://download.eclipse.org/releases/mars/201510021000"

This build creates output in two places:

1. tar.gz/zip archives with the packages in archive/ and
2. a p2 repository with the EPP artifacts in archive/repository/.

Windows users

If you are running the build on Windows, the last build step will currently fail. This failure can be circumvented by skipping the last step which aggregates the filtered EPP artifacts from the packages into a new p2 repository. For further details see bug 426416. At the moment it is advised to run the build command on Windows with package only:

mvn clean package -Psweet.package.java

In addition to that it is not possible to create zip and tar.gz archives on Windows due to missing Bash scripting capabilities. On Windows, the output of the build is the eclipse directory that contains the usual content from the zip archive. This directory can be found below (e.g. RCP package) packages/com.exyte.sweet.package.java.product/target/products/.