Installation instructions

[nelson777]

Sorry I don't think I understood installation instructions. Equo IDE page didn't help much either

What's happening here ? it's building an Eclipse Project with customized components ? Is that it ?

Could you please explain in greater detail how I would install this plugin in my Eclipse ? I use wild web developer Eclipse project. I don't use maven or gradle.

Maybe a list of instructions like the one in Assist AI page ?

[nedtwigg]

Thanks for this question @nelson777, it's very helpful!

So far Eclipse has always been built with OSGi and p2. Those technologies are becoming less popular, so the community of people who can build new Eclipse plugins is shrinking. We are trying to fix that with a new Eclipse runtime called Equo Solstice. It lets you build an Eclipse plugin with fewer steps.

However, it means that you can't install this plugin in regular Eclipse unless we do some more work

• Generate OSGi metadata and publish to p2 update site #1

I'm curious to know if I could convince you try running Equo IDE. Right now the only way to launch it is through a build. For example, if you clone this repo and then run ./gradlew equoIde or ./mvnw equo-ide:launch. You don't have to use Maven or Gradle for your project, just to launch the IDE. Is that off the table? Do you need to have like an .exe that you double-click?

The point of putting the IDE configuration into build.gradle or pom.xml is to make the IDE and all its plugins repeatable. Configuring an IDE by installing plugins through dialogs is manual work, we want to make it easier to automate.