How to apply an existing patch to your eclipse ide

Question

I'm trying to get my eclipse set up on ubuntu but I've run into an incredibly annoying bug that when pressing F2 to bring up a javadoc popup all further keypresses are blocked until i click the mouse on some other ui element.

The bug itself is viewable here - https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=353305 and there is a patch provided here - http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.swt.git/commit/?id=a7026b1b456498a95fd3935ab7b613f4c353caa4

I've found two articles about patching features in eclipse http://aniefer.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/patching-features-with-p2.html http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2012/07/30/patching-your-own-eclipse-ide/

I began creating a new feature patch but both of these article seem to assume that you magically will know what values to enter for "Feature ID" and "Feature version". I just have this patch linked above, I have no idea of the feature ID or version.

If someone could lay out some easy to follow steps that would be great, and maybe a bit of background I fee like there is a massive gap in knowledge here, I mean I'm really stuck as to where to look for this info.

Thanks

Answer 1

A feature patch is a special kind of feature that specifies the bundles to update in an existing feature.

In my example my feature patch is updating 2 bundles in the org.eclipse.rcp feature. The ID of the feature patch itself identifies the patch (so has to be unique), but is not really related to what is being patched.

What you have is a source code patch. To create a feature patch, you would need to check out the appropriate source code for the bundle you care about (in this case SWT), apply the patch and make sure it works. Then you can use that plus the feature patch to generate an update site (use File>Export...>Plug-in Development>Deployable Features ) that can be used to install it into an existing system. To get the code, here is an example of How To Contribute to Platform UI, which is similar to what you have to do for SWT .