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My first Eclipse plugin!

So, thanks to Mariano, after a few weeks reading the Eclipse Plugin book, I'm pleased to announce my first Eclipse plugin - TarImport :)

Essentially, TarImport allows you to import data into your Eclipse session from a Tar file (uncompressed, or gz/bz2 compressed). I missed this functionality as generally under Linux, files are distributed as compressed tar archives, and up till now Eclipse only supported import from Zip files.

I've submitted the plugin for general inclusion into Eclipse - so hopefully with a bit more work it will be generally available. For now if you want it, you can get it from Eclipse Bugzilla. Simply unzip the file into your Eclipse installation, after restarting you should be able to select 'Tar File' from the types listed in the Import menu.

It's my first plugin so go easy :) but all feedback, ideas, patches, etc, are really appreciated. Next on the list is tar export.

Hope it's useful :)

Posted by crafterm at August 11, 2004 12:45 PM | TrackBack