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Setting up a Taxonomic Editor development environment
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Setting up a Taxonomic Editor development environment
This document describes all steps necessarry to create a development environment to develop the EDIT Taxonomic Editor. If you are looking for
instructions on how to install the EDIT Taxonomic Editor please consult the {{{./manual.html} manual}}.
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* Requirements
The current version of the EDIT Taxonomic Editor is developed against Eclipse PDE Version 3.6. Your PDE or at least your target platform have to have the same version.
* Checking out the sources
Use subversion to check out the sources from the EDIT repository to a location on your development machine.
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$ svn co http://dev.e-taxonomy.eu/svn/trunk/taxeditor
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This will leave you with a directory <<>> containing everything that is needed. We will have a look at the contents later on.
* Setting up eclipse
The Taxonomic Editor uses maven for convenient configuration and automation of common tasks, such as setting up eclipse.
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$ cd taxeditor/
$ mvn eclipse:eclipse
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This will take some time, as maven will download the required dependencies and configure the projects. After maven has finished follow these steps:
* Start up eclipse (make sure you have the required version installed) and open a workspace.
* Open up the Import Wizard via Import...> from the menu
* Choose Existing projects into Workspace > and click next.
* Check