Installing WOLips
"Quick" Install
The easiest way to install WOLips is to follow the steps in the Install WOLips with Eclipse Update Manager tutorial.
WOLips Nightly Build Server
If you already have WOLips' dependencies (WTP, TPTP, GEM, and GEF), then you can download WOLips from the build server. Nightly builds of WOLips are maintained in several forms at http://www.mdimension.com/~wolips/. Among the various packagings you will find are:
- http://www.mdimension.com/~wolips/dependencies/
This folder contains all the zips for the dependencies of wolips (so you don't have to go through all those damn sites) - http://www.mdimension.com/~wolips/wolips-latest.tar.gz
This is a .tar.gz of the features and plugins folders if you don't want to use eclipse updating to install. This is rebuilt nightly, but i was too lazy to pull the version # to put it in the filename
- http://www.mdimension.com/~wolips/wolips-all-latest.tar.gz
This is a single tar.gz with all of the dependencies uncompressed and the latest wolips that you can unzip over top of your eclipse folder ... so if you want to do an initial install, just grab this. Same laziness on version # in filename -- it's rebuilt along w/ the nightly build.
If you download any of the precompiled tar.gz's, all you need to do is have eclipse installed and then tar xvfz the files in the folder that contains your eclipse folder (it assumes your eclipse folder is named "eclipse"). It should uncompress directly on top of your eclipse folder, inserting the plugins and features folders accordingly.
Installing the Nightly Build
Prior to installing a nightly build, you must have all dependencies installed. Nightly builds do not currently package and deploy the dependencies.
To install a fresh Eclipse with with WOLips support:
- Download an Eclipse 3.2 and uncompress it into a folder
- Download the http://www.mdimension.com/~wolips/wolips-all-latest.tar.gz latest WOLips
- Uncompress the WOLips tar.gz in the same folder you uncompressed Eclipse 3.2 in
- Profit
Installing from a Local Build
- If you made changes locally, Eclipse will not automatically install your changed plugins if the version number is the same. You have two options -- either uninstall WOLips or cheat and increment the WOLips build version prior to building your local copy. To uninstall WOLips, just delete all org.objectstyle features and plugins from your eclipse folder. To increment the build server version, open buildserver.version in your projects folder and increment the last number. Note that you will now be "competing" with version numbers from the official build server, so the next official build will not install because you already used the next number, but sometimes it's a quick hack to force an update if you're lazy
- Assuming you now have your build versions under control, you should follow the instructions for Building WOLips
- Launch Eclipse
- Help=>Software Updates=>Find and install ...
- Search for new features to install
- New Local Site
- Browse to and select your workspace/projects/temp/dist folder or your woproject/projects/temp/dist folder (depending on whether you checked out in eclipse or commandline)
- Check the box next to it, continue, and just keep selecting the "Yes"/"OK"/"Approve"/etc buttons