20 Jun 08 Downloading the Editor
Downloading the Editor
Downloading the full package
This package includes the Eclipse IDE for windows, the DITA-OP plugins (and their dependencies), the CVS plugin and Subclipse, the SVN team plugin.
Work is still needed on this package to remove things that are not becessary to a typical technical writer but it is a good start if you do not use Eclipse already and want to evaluate the editor.
Also, it is only available for windows and if demand is high enough for other platforms we will build other packages. In the mean time, if you are using another platform please download the Eclipse IDE for your platform and use one the other download methods.
- Go to the project’s download page.
- Choose the doped-1.0.0.M2-20081218-win32.zip zip file.
- Unzip the file anywhere on your file system and run the eclipse.exe file contained in the newly created doped-1.0.0.M2-20081218 folder.
Downloading the plugins zip file
- Go to the project’s download page.
- Choose the org.dita_op.feature-1.0.0.M2-20081218-bin.zip zip file.
- Once downloaded, unzip the file in the Eclipse folder (the one which contains the features and plugins folders).
- If necessary, restart Eclipse.
Using the update site
Eclipse 3.3 (Europa)
- Open Eclipse, go to
- Choose Search for new features to install.
- Click on the “New Remote Site…” button.
- Enter DITA-OP Update Site in the name field.
- Enter http://www.dita-op.org/updatesite in the URL field.
- Click on the OK button.
- Make sure the DITA-OP Update Site check box is selected (you may have to select the Europa Discovery Site as well to fetch dependencies).
- Click on the Finish button.
- Select the DITA-OP Update Site check box (if an error appears about missing dependencies click on the Select Required button).
- Click on the Next button.
- Choose the I accept the terms in the license agreement radio button.
- Click on the Next button.
- Click on the Finish button.
- Wait for the download to complete.
- Click on the Install button.
- Click on the Yes button to restart Eclipse.
Eclipse 3.4 (Ganymede)
- Open Eclipse, go to
- Select the Available Software tab.
- Click Add Site…
- In the Add Site dialog, enter http://www.dita-op.org/updatesite in the Location field.
- Click the OK button.
- Make sure the http://www.dita-op.org/updatesite check box and Uncategorized check boxes are selected.
- Click the Install… button.
- Wait for the Update Manager to resolves dependencies.
- Read and accept the necessary license agreements.
- Wait for the download and install to complete.
- Click on the Yes button to restart Eclipse.
Nightly builds
Downloading the sources
To download the sources use the SVN source repository. The repository URL is https://svn.dita-op.org/svnroot/dita-op/ and is anonymously accessible.
You can refer to this sourceforge page for detailed information about SVN: Subversion - Version Control for Source Code.
Reader's Comments
Hi,
Newbie question, sorry ;-)
I’m currently trying out the IBM Task Modeler 6 to graphically build DITAmaps. The “About” menu says: Eclipse SDK 3.2.1
Can I still download your doped-1.0.0.M2-20081218 file and run your Editor at the same time or should I first uninstall my Eclipse environment to avoid any conflict?
Thanks!
Hi,
The DITA-OP Editor is compatible with Eclipse 3.3 and above while the Task Modeler is only compatible with 3.2.
You will have to install two versions of Eclipse and switch between them.
This until I release M3 which will include a better DITA maps editor.
Hi,
I’m just downloading everything to check out your solution. It certainly sounds promising.
We are mostly interested in the project management and version control aspects, as well as the continuous building. Could we use this setup with other DITA editors; or is everything tied closely to Eclipse usage?
Thanks…
You can use any editor that can connect to a WebDAV repository to access the files in Subversion but for continuous building you will have to tailor an Ant build file and use the Bitten Ant command in your build recipe instead of the DITA-OP command.