Howto connect eclipse tasklist (Mylyn) to google code?

Question

Hi,

I'm using Eclipse Galileo. I want to connect the eclipse tasklist to a google code project. I need a connecter to do this. Connectors can be installed via Task Resoitory view -> add TaskRepopsitory -> Install more Connectors. But I can't see that one of the listed connectors will support google code.

I searched the web and read about the Web Templates Connector. But most information I found refer to eclipse Ganymede. There is a download on this page. Its a zip file wich contains the Web Templates Connector. I was not able to add this site to the eclipse update sites. I downloaded the file and added it to the update sites via the "add Archive" function. But it seems eclipse is expecting a jar file there and stops the installation because the hashcodes are not equal.

How do I install the Web Templates Connector to eclipse Galileo? Is there another connector which I can use ?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

In order to install the web templates you have two options:

1. If you have a web server at your disposal (or just install Apache o your machine) - Download the zip file you refer to and extract it into a new folder under the web server. Now use the standard eclipse plugin installation to add this address (like http://localhost/mylyn-webtemplates/) to the plugin sources and install the plugin.
2. A simpler approach - download the zip file you refer to and extract the features and plugins directories from the zip to the dropins directory under eclipse. Restart the eclipse and the plugins should be loaded.

Answer 2

I just added a new Mylyn update site based on the URI of the extras. My extras showed up as:

Mylyn Extras - http://download.eclipse.org/tools/mylyn/update/extras

and the Eclipse download site refered to 3 sites were the first 2 were already listed:

/tools/mylyn/update/e3.4
/tools/mylyn/update/extras        
/tools/mylyn/update/incubator

So I added the Mylyn software site:

  Mylyn Incubator - http://download.eclipse.org/tools/mylyn/update/incubator

Worked for me, hope it will for you.