About Fedora Eclipse

With the release of Fedora Core 4 we have included a natively-compiled version of the Eclipse IDE using GCJ. Natively compiling Eclipse allows us to include it in the Fedora Core distribution because it is not dependant on proprietary JVMs. It also allows for a speed boost as natively compiled code can potentially run faster than interpreted code. GCJ and the Classpath library are in a state of constant improvement and this benefits a natively compiled Eclipse directly.

Install

To install Eclipse SDK on Fedora Core (4 or higher), run:
yum install eclipse-pde-devel
To install the Java IDE, use:
yum install eclipse-jdt
To install the C/C++ Development Tools, run:
yum install eclipse-cdt
Additional plug-ins:
yum install eclipse-bugzilla
yum install eclipse-changelog
yum install eclipse-pydev
Alternately, you can install the bugzilla, changelog or autotools plugin with our Eclipse update site:
http://sourceware.org/eclipse/update/

Participate

Want to participate? Great! If you have a bug or feature request please refer to our bugzilla. Do you have any favourite Eclipse plug-ins that we don't ship and you think you can package? Let us know on the mailing list or IRC. The Eclipse plug-ins that we develop are Free Software. If you're a developer and would like to help, we'd be delighted. Visit the page for the specific plug-in for more information.

Mailing List

Please use the Fedora-Devel-Java mailing list for discussions relating to Fedora Eclipse, any of our plug-ins, or java-gcj-compat.

IRC

Bugs

Please use the Red Hat Bugzilla for filing general bugs against Fedora Eclipse. For individual plug-ins, please refer to the plug-in pages.