Use Eclipse with Mylyn and Trac via TracXMLRPC

by ed0t - Published: April 14th, 2009

Today i’ve decided to add to my Eclipse IDE the Mylyn plugin, an add-on that lets manage bugs and planning of a project inside the IDE itself. Mylyn can be used with a lot of bug tracking tools and since i use Trac i’ve decided to link them together inside Eclipse.

I assume you have installed Trac on your local server, or on your Dreamhost account. To enable communication between Trac and Mylyn we have to install and enable the XmlRpcPlugin that you can download from trac-hacks.

After the download, copy your plugin on the system where Trac is installed. Uncompress the archive and go to the 0.10 folder if you have Trac 0.10 or trunk folder otherwise.

Now digit these commands:

chmod 755 -R *
python setup.py bdist_egg

Wait until the Python egg is created and then copy it into the plugins directory of your Trac environment. The egg file is in the dist directory created during the egg building.

Now go into your Admin account of your Trac web interface and go to Plugins page. You’ll see a TracXMLRPC 0.1 field. Clicking on it you’ll see some component. You have to enable these components as shown in the next figure.

Trac XMLRPC plugin components

Well we’ve almost done. Now we have to install Mylyn and Mylyn extras into Eclipse.

Start Eclipse and click on Help -> Software Updates. Click on the Availabe Software tab. Click on Add Site button and paste these two “repository”:

http://download.eclipse.org/tools/mylyn/update/e3.4

http://download.eclipse.org/tools/mylyn/update/extras

Now select to install these features:

Mylyn Plugin

Wait until Eclipse asks you to restart to update changes and then you’ll be able to use Mylyn with your Trac environment.


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Install Trac on DreamHost

by ed0t - Published: April 21st, 2008

Since we wanted to install Trac on our DreamHost domain we have followed the Natmaster tutorial. Anyway we came in trouble so here we describe how we have installed Trac. The proceeding is quite similar to Natmaster one, but we found some missing pieces that we describe below.

Here is the list of programs that we have installed:

  • virtual-python
  • Trac 0.10.4
  • Clearsilver 0.10.3
  • SQLite 3.5.2
  • PySqlite 2.3.5
  • Swig 1.3.31

If you have already tried to install Trac remove all installed programs in your directory (ex: packages) and remove the other files created (ex: .pydistutils.cfg) or paths setted in .bash_profile or .bash_rc.

Let’s start with a new installation! Read more…

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