Author: Ian Bull

I'm happy to announce that Yoxos 5.6 has been released. Yoxos is a service to help you create and share your Eclipse configurations. You can create your own custom EPP Packages, dynamically generate p2 repositories, or design and archive tool-chains for your entire development team. Here are a number of notable features in Yoxos 5.6. Custom EPP Packages With Yoxos 5.6 you can now create and download your...

Creating p2 repositories is certainly not easy; especially if you want to ensure that all the dependencies are met. Of course the publisher is a great tool for generating repositories, but you still need to find all your dependencies and either include them, or create a composite repository pointing at them. This task is recursive since each of those dependencies likely have dependencies of their...

At EclipseSource, we've been helping to creating the Eclipse Packages for over 5 years now. During that time we've learned a lot about building tools for developers. One thing we've learned is that every development team is different, and a one-size-fits-all approach doesn't work. You want your Eclipse, your way! Of course, with the install and update manager (p2), you can choose from hundreds of plug-ins to...