Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Kasemir, Kay" <[email protected]> · Wed, 3 Apr 2013 11:36:26 -0400

Hello Mike:

On 4/3/13 11:06 , "Vítek Michal" <[email protected]> wrote:
>What I still do not understand is where I can get the plugins. The
>css_book suggest to use CSS source codes of side specific build and to
>use "user selection" of plugins included in this build. The thing is that
>I would like to use a combination of plugins for which I would need to
>combine source codes of all three main bulits available and combine them
>somehow. Thus I am wondering if there is some way how to get source code
>with all available plugins to reduce time spend on the building process
>and to minimize risk of problems during compilation... Any suggestion?
If you want to get the source for everything, you simply get a copy of the
source repository:

git clone https://github.com/ControlSystemStudio/cs-studio.git

Takes about 3 minutes, and you have everything including the history.
Then you look at one of the products/<site name>/* products for one that
might be close to what you want, and go from there.
What's confusing in that approach: You get a ton of plugins, some very
site specific, some with compiler errors because nobody uses them any
more. Maybe even plugins with the same name in the 'main' section of the
repository and under products/<site name> because a site needed certain
changes in there. So if you simply 'import' everything into Eclipse to
look at it, you'd be overwhelmed (or at least I am).
What I do: Import the products that I want into my Eclipse workspace, then
import the features and plugins needed by those products. This step is
tedious.

-Kay

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System