Re: Eclipse

[David Nusinow <david.nusinow@verizon.net>]

On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 07:24:10PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
> The IBM "Common Public License" seems to meet the DFSG.
> http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/CPLv1.0.htm
> 
> Eclipse is an IDE and supporting tool kits, primarily focussed on Java but 
> also supporting other languages.  As you can see from the announcement below 
> it's getting some good industry support (so having it is good for getting 
> Debian in corporations).
> 
> Anyone interested in packaging it?  It's at http://www.eclipse.org/ .

There's already been some work done on it, as per bug #119885. It was
ITP'ed 394 days ago and apparently left to rot, but Takashi Okamoto
appears to have uploaded some preliminary packages a couple of days
ago. I'm personally pretty happy about this. Eclipse is a really
powerful tool and should be in Debian.

 - David Nusinow