1014247 - Configure Eclipse to allow editing and building mobile/android/{chrome,modules} and friends

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox Build System :: Android Studio and Gradle Integration, defect)

Description

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

I'm finding that new contributors are picking up the Eclipse build integration for Java (which is excellent!  yay!) but are not being served by the awkward transition between Eclipse and console/text editors for editing JavaScript and chrome resources.

This ticket tracks making that better.

Comment 1

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

Attachment: WIP on loading omni.ja from a different location.

Comment 2

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

Attachment: WIP on loading libraries from a different location.

Comment 3

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

These experimental patches add two new Eclipse projects -- Fennec{Libraries,Omnijar} which allow to edit .js, .jsm, and chrome resources from Eclipse, rebuild the omnijar, and then deploy the omnijar to the device independently.  (For good measure, the libraries are shipped independently too, which speeds up the deploy cycle.)

I just wanted a place to put these; they're not even close to shippable yet.

Comment 4

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

Attachment: Build omni.ja from within Eclipse. r=rnewman

Building Fennec with an Eclipse plugin means we have better control
over rebuilds, and lets us do expensive things like packaging less
frequently.

This works as follows:

- new FennecOmnijar project with mobile/android/{chrome,modules,...} resources
- FennecOmnijar only gets built when said resources change
- FennecOmnijar build process writes new omni.ja (hacky Make hacking, yay!)
- Fennec project includes FennecOmnijar

It's working well for me locally; screencast coming up!

Comment 5

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Comment on attachment 8445595 [details] [diff] [review]
Build omni.ja from within Eclipse. r=rnewman

lgtm.

Comment 6

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/fx-team/rev/e37a137812f5

Comment 7

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/e37a137812f5