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 # ttnhabbridge
 Bridge between the-things-network and the habitat network, to receive amateur balloons using LoRaWAN
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+== Development environment ==
+I develop this on Windows 7.
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+Steps to install everything:
+* check out this archive, e.g. using tortoisegit
+* download a Java JDK and put it in tools/jdk
+* download Eclipse (I use Mars) and put in in the tools/eclipse directory (for example)
+* install the egit plugin in eclipse, using this update site: http://download.eclipse.org/egit/updates/
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+Steps to prepare the Eclipse environment:
+* open a command line to the checked out project
+* type 'env.bat' to initialise the tool paths etc
+* go to directory workspace/gradle
+* type 'gradlew eclipse' and watch dependencies being downloaded from the internet
+* start Eclipse, using the 'workspace' directory as workspace
+* import all sub-projects into the workspace
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+Steps to create a release:
+* edit the version number in @@@TODO
+* using gradle: type 'gradlew distTar' or 'gradlew distZip'
+* the .tar or .zip file can be found under build/distributions