Managing Eclipse with Puppet

[Jeff Sussna]

Does anyone know if there's a Puppet module available for managing Eclipse plugins?

[Jeff Sussna]

Eclipse itself is straightfoward, since it's just a matter of download/unzip/set env vars.I wrote my own manifest to do that.

In at least one case I tried, installing a plugin by manually placing files into /plugins and /features wasn't enough to activate the plugin. Wondering if it was because of the need to accept the license?


On Wednesday, August 29, 2012 2:38:49 AM UTC-5, Juha Vainikka wrote:

perjantai, 24. elokuuta 2012 0.43.19 UTC+3 Jeff Sussna kirjoitti:
> Does anyone know if there's a Puppet module available for managing Eclipse plugins?

I'm also interested in this. Anyone using puppet for setting up eclipse? (with or without plugins)

[Henrik Lindberg]

To install additional plugins into Eclipse, you want to use the "p2
director" application. It is embedded inside the Eclipse IDE itself so
once the IDE is unzipped and Java is installed, it is possible to run
the director.

The director app can install new things, update, and uninstall.

There is also a separately packaged smaller headless p2 director
available for download. (This director is often used in headless/CI builds).

The main complications regarding Eclipse installations is if you install
it in one of the "shared" modes.

Regards
- henrik

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[Henrik Lindberg]

On 2012-29-08 16:04, Henrik Lindberg wrote:
> To install additional plugins into Eclipse, you want to use the "p2
> director" application. It is embedded inside the Eclipse IDE itself so
> once the IDE is unzipped and Java is installed, it is possible to run
> the director.
>
> The director app can install new things, update, and uninstall.
>
> There is also a separately packaged smaller headless p2 director
> available for download. (This director is often used in headless/CI
> builds).
>
> The main complications regarding Eclipse installations is if you install
> it in one of the "shared" modes.
>

And if you are behind a proxy, you probably need to read this as well:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Hudson#Configuring_a_proxy_for_the_p2_director

- henrik

[Jeff Sussna]

Thanks! Will give it a shot and let you know how it works.

[Simon Tremblay]

https://github.com/runthebusiness/puppet-eclipse