Eclipse, git and source bundles

[John Marino]

On 6/6/2014 09:31, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There's an outstanding PR which brings Eclipse up to 4.3.2:
>   https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188659
> 
> Unfortunately, this has been rejected as it clones a git-repo in order
> to run a build. I've had a look around the 'Net, and I can't seem to
> find a source download for the Eclipse 4.3.2. The older bundles can be
> found at: http://download.eclipse.org/technology/linuxtools/eclipse-build/
> ; but this appears for have been discontinued for later versions.
> 
> What should be the course of action if the upstream does not provide a
> source-bundle and expects a developer to check out the version from
> git in order to build a proejct?

One solution is roll your own tarball and host it.
You'd just clone the repo, rsync it to remove all the .gitignore / .git
SVN CVS directories, tar it and upload it.  Then you become the trusted
source. :)

I do this sometimes when I need the top of a repo between releases.

John