Description of problem: E.P.I.C. is a very useful IDE for Perl development. It would be very convenient to have it packaged as eclipse-perl or eclipse-epic in Fedora. It is not presently available in the package lists and must be installed manually. Additional info: E.P.I.C. Perl can be found at http://e-p-i-c.sourceforge.net/
That sounds good. Can someone check if someone already has packaged this and we have some pkg we can start with!?
Stephen: would you like to maintain this? We can help guide you with the initial packaging effort.
Sure, I think I can probably handle that. Where do we begin?
Awesome! Step 1 is to get a source zip. If upstream doesn't provide one, you can generate one from CVS or SVN. I guess it would be good to see if upstream has their build method documented somewhere since it would be nice to follow what they do. If they don't, try taking a look at one of the existing eclipse plugins in Fedora (Mylyn, ChangeLog, GEF (has upstream build mechanism), etc.) and see if you can shim E.P.I.C. into what's being done there. With luck, it'll work :) Post back here if you have issues. We can also discuss on fedora-devel-java-list if you prefer. Thanks!
It'd be very nice to see EPIC in Fedora. Just FYI, note that there were issues with using Fedora's gcj-built Eclipse with upstream Sun JDK-built EPIC, e.g., http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1729216&group_id=75859&atid=545274
I'm afraid that events in my personal life have intervened and I will not be able to put this together. I am sorry about this.
Thanks for letting us know, Stephen. Jack, would you like to become the owner? Note that the issue was not with Eclipse itself but with gcj AFAICT from that bug report. You have always been able to run Fedora Eclipse with Sun, IBM, etc. VMs if you choose since we ship both bytecode and native code (for gcj).
Thanks for the invitation, but I'm afraid I can't devote time to package ownership. I'm fine using EPIC via the standard Eclise Plugins mechanism, but I can see how this would be useful for more sites where centralized administration is more important.
I've added this here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WishList If anyone needs help packaging this, contact me.
Hi, I'm also a user of EPIC who'd like to see it packaged with Fedora. As a reasonably long time Fedora user, I've been meaning to contribute in some useful way. Package maintenance seems to be a good and easy way to get involved. If no-one else has dibbs on it, I'd like to volunteer for maintaining EPIC in Fedora. I shall file a new review request bug when I have the package ready.
I'd volunteer to review it! :-)
Hi, I've submitted the following two new package review requests that folk subscribed to this bug may be interested in: bug #426883 bug #426884