2008 Jul 03 - Thu
Upgrade from Eclipse Europa to Ganymede (with painful Subversion)
Today, I upgraded from Eclipse/CDT Europa to Eclipse/CDT Ganymede.
(CDT meaning C++ Developer Tools). The Eclipse upgrade was painless:
download the Eclipse/CDT package, expand it, and start eclipse from
within the directory. After pointing it to my workspace, everything
was there. Nicely simple.
My subversion client was an entirely different story. For the Europa installation,
everything came from the tigris site and worked well. For the Ganymede installation,
there are now two sites involved, and I'm not sure which is what. I think
the tigris site can now be ignored (for the time being). In the
installation instructions somewhere, one needs to go to the
Polarion site for their client. There
are Eclipse update links there.
However, what I assumed to be workable defaults of using the JavaHL library on
Debian turned out to be non-workable. The solution was not to use the JavaHL
client but use the SVNKit client.
My key problem is that my SVN repository requries an ssh public/private key.
The JavaHL library, if or when it would or wouldn't load, I'm not sure what I was
seeing, but I could only see the option for user name and password authentication.
It would have been nice if the Subversion/Polarion/Eclipse guys would all get
together and make it straight-forward in terms of which libraries from
which sites need to be download. If they imply that the JavaHL libraries should
be downloaded, please make it painless to get the paths set and ensure the binaries
are present. After 15 million lines of code, you'd think that would be a
small task to accomplish.
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