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Re: [platform-dev] I would like to help with SWT contributions

Ned,

If it's an issue of setting up a local development environment that can be done automatically:

  https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_Platform_SDK_Provisioning

SWT is a bit tricky, with some renaming involved to set up the classpath in an OS-specific way, but that's handled automatically by the setup.

The above will clone way more projects than you really need, but you can go back after the initial automatic selection, selectively choose which projects to actually clone; this particular setup chooses all the Eclipse SDK projects by default.  You would actually only need the SWT project for your focused purpose, but it's super useful to have clones of all projects of the Eclipse SDK so that you can contribute anywhere and change anything.

Take note of the instructions about getting a Gerrit account and changing the clone URIs to be Gerrit Read/Write URIs so that you can commit to Gerrit when you want to contribute later.

Regards,
Ed


On 04.10.2019 18:35, Ned Twigg wrote:
Hello!  I really like SWT.  I like contributing to open source, and I have a hard time contributing to SWT.  I would like to help make it easier to contribute.

I found and documented a simple bug two years ago.

Today, Niraj very generously supplied a fix, but he cannot test it because he doesn't have a mac.  I figured the least I could do was help test it, but I cannot get the build to work.  I tried to follow the README/CONTRIBUTING, but it seems that a lot of the info there is stale.

Is there anyone who can help get me setup?  I will document the process, and update the README / CONTRIBUTING.  I also plan to run a GitHub mirror with public CI, so that it is easier for people like me to at least get started with contributing back to SWT.

Ned Twigg
Lead Software Architect, DiffPlug LLC
540-336-8043 (cell)
888-513-6870 (fax)
340 S Lemon Ave #3433, Walnut, CA 91789
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