You should be able to work on the plugin by cloning this repository:
git clone git@github.com:cucumber/cucumber-eclipse.git
You can then import the 4 plugin projects into Eclipse.
We have arbitrarily decided to support Eclipse 3.5+ - hopefully this will cover most development kits that don't stick to the bleeding edge of Eclipse versions, however if there is an overriding reason to use a more recent version of the eclipse APIs, this is not set in stone. When adding dependencies to the plugins, make sure to add them as version [3.5,0).
Plugins:
- cucumber.eclipse.editor - an editor for .feature files - will use step definitions from integration implementions if they exist
- cucumber.eclipse.runner - runs a feature file wrapped up in a JUnit test. Initially will depend on the steps integration implementation.
- cucumber.eclipse.steps.integration - an extension point for plugins that supply a means to deduce a list of all steps defined in a project
- cucumber.eclipse.steps.jdt - an implementation of the integration extension point that uses Eclipse JDT to find steps.
Feature:
- cucumber.eclipse.feature - an Eclipse feature set that includes all of the above plugins.
There is an Eclipse Update Site on the gh-pages branch. If you're going to do a release you'll need to clone that branch too:
git clone -b gh-pages git@github.com:cucumber/cucumber-eclipse.git cucumber-eclipse-site
You can then import the update-site subdirectory as an Eclipse project, and you'll also need to import the cucumber.eclipse.feature directory of the main code that you're using.
The build procedure is then:
- Update version numbers by running
mvn tycho-versions:set-version -DnewVersion=0.0.4-SNAPSHOT
- Build the Eclipse Plugin, Feature and P2 repository with
mvn clean install
- Copy the contents of
cucumber.eclipse.p2updatesite\target\repository
to theupdate-site
folder in the cucumber-eclipse-site - In the _posts directory, add a new .md file for your version, giving brief release notes.
- Git-add all changes, and commit using a github issue that covers the release, commit and push to relevant branches.