Have just contibuted a patch to Eclipse Bugzilla that adds support for exporting to compressed and uncompressed tar files in Eclipse. This is alongside a previous patch I submitted a week back that allows you to import from them as well.
The extension mechanism in Eclipse is quite powerful, all I had to do was extend the Import and Export Wizards extension points and implement a few interfaces. Luckily in my case there was a similar example already available (Zip import/export) - so, according to the Eclipse House Rule "monkey see/monkey do", it was a bit easier than expected :)
At least now we've got better tar file support in Eclipse :)
Posted by crafterm at August 17, 2004 05:33 PM | TrackBack