Base Development Platform
Having been using Eclipse for a number of years now, along with the html/css tools and PHPEclipse, it has been becoming more and more clogged up and buggy so the decision was made over christmas to back up every project on the current Eclipse workspaces and start the development platform again starting with a clean install of one of the Eclipse framework packages. While I would prefer to avoid using the more commercial PDT extension for PHP development, phpEclipse is not longer being developed, and lack of time prevents having a go myself at updating that package to PHP7 on-line verification. The ready assembled PDt install kit has most of the usefull PHP and HTML5 validation covered along with css and javascript editors. While not released yet, the Neon Milestone of the Eclipse for PHP developers seems a sensible concideration if only to try and get ahead of the game for a change. In addition, LibreOffice has long since replaced OpenOffice for the office documents suite.
The packages supplied via the SUSE package manager are not in sync with the latest Mercurial and Eclipse packages, so some need to be pulling from their respective projects.
| Package | Version | Source | |
| LibreOffice | 4.3.7.2 | ||
| Java | 1.8.0 | On the windows 64 bit machines make sure 64 bit java is running | |
| Eclipse | 4.6.0M4 | Eclipse notes page | |
| phpEclipse | ---- | Dropped due to falling behind current PHP validation | Replaced with PDT extension to Eclipse |
| Python | 2.7.8 | Only needed to run Mercurial ... | |
| Mercurial | 3.6.2 | ||
| hg-git | 0.8.3 | http://github.com/schacon/hg-git | |
| hgsubversion | 1.8.4 | http://bitbucket.org/durin42/hgsubversion/ | |
| hgnested | |||
| MercurialEclipse | 1.8.1 | ||
| TortoiseHg | 3.6.1 | ||
| tortoisehg-nautilus | 3.6.1 | ||
| BeyondCompare | 5.0.6 | One of those must have paid for packages Predates Eclipse and provides 2 and now 3 way file and directory compare in Windows and Linux BeyondCompare Notes page |
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| Tesseract | This is the current OCR package for adding a text layer to pdf and other other text images. It does a job, but needs to be used with other overlays to do the whole job. It essentially only works on a single image, so pdf's need to be separated out and the resulting ste of outputs recombined to create the final searchable pdf document. | https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract | |
| tabula | 1.2.1 | Stand alone web based system for overlaying scanned documents with a full grid and put the relevent text into each box. For example converting bank statements to spreadsheets. Command line version is not as efficent at statements that do not have a printed grid, also having to run on windows as the linux build crashes. | https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula |