Re: Eclipse

[Ed Tomlinson <tomlins@cam.org>]

On Monday 31 October 2005 15:58, Marcin Dębicki wrote:
> Hamish Moffatt kiedys napisal:
> 
> > On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 08:22:31AM -0400, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> >> On Monday 31 October 2005 05:28, Dalibor Topic wrote:
> >> > The packagers used a specific free runtime to make the eclipse package
> >> > build and work, so they made that runtime specifically part of the
> >> > dependencies, as that's a configuration the packagers can focus on to
> >> > support.
> >> > 
> >> > You are most welcome to contribute, and help improve the eclipse
> >> > packages.
> >> 
> >> This does _not_ make a lot of sense.  It would make much more sense to
> >> suggest gcj/gij
> >> and depend on java-virtual-machine.  This leaves it up the the user to
> >> decide if he can
> >> use a non-free jvm.  I my case many of the apps I use (non-debian) fail
> >> with the free
> >> jvms.  In short this type of depends is, IMO a bug.  It will force me,
> >> and many others, to bypass the packaging system, which is usually a bad
> >> idea.
> > 
> > Your argument is only reasonable if your non-free Java environment is a
> > complete drop-in replacement for building and running Eclipse.
> > 
> > If not, then you're asking for extra work to be done to support multiple
> > JVMs. If that's what you need, patches are probably welcome.
> > 
> > 
> > Hamish
> Maybe not. Original (downloaded) Eclipse version works with both gcj/gij and
> Sun JDK. And I think that with Sable and kaffe it could also work wothout
> patching as far as I know. Maybe when all Eclipse packages will be
> available, I will repack it and try with each virtual machine.

Thanks, If you want the packages tested on another box please ask.

Ed Tomlinson