If you have anything in the works, and are busy, I'll be glad to take a
look at it in my free time too. If you have nothing for 3.0 yet I won't
worry about it. :)
On Thu, 2003-12-25 at 15:56, Jan Schulz wrote:
> Hello Jerry,
>
> Thursday, December 25, 2003, 8:02:08 PM, you wrote:
> > Just wondering if anybody is working on packages for this, or has them
> > available. It would be nice to get them into experimental.
>
> I will try to get the available during early january, but I fear
> that I won't get them ready until I have to start learning for my
> exams (the next break would be in march). Unfortunatelly they will
> have to be done from scratch, as I wan to try to get parts eclipse
> into main and start doing builds from CVS (I'm fed up with
> downloading 40MB+ Source).
>
> > I'm also a bit curious how the built in Plugin update system is handled
> > in the Debian packages.
>
> In 2.1.x: It's disabled, more or less. There is actually no
> mechanism for proper package management, eclipse will try to handle
> everything by itself. So I set all 'plugin locations' as read only
> (patched some things...). Unfortunatelly there seems to be a bug in
> eclipse, so that the $HOME/.eclipse/eclipse location, which is the
> only one not read only, will not show up in the update manager.
>
> If you create a new location within eclipse (only valiod for one
> 'workspace'), it should be handled properly.
>
> > Does it work properly?
>
> In 2.1: No. In 3.0 I hope. I've complained a lot and I hope that my
> 'use case' got integrated into the new updater. I haven't had time
> to test yet. The 3.0 Stream just got finished with its major changes,
> so that it will not change significantly from now on.
>
> > Can it handle plugin's
> > placed in /usr/local?
>
> No, as that location is also only accessable by one user. In 3.0
> there is a manual updater, so root can do some 'update_usr_local'
> (or whatever I might call the script).
>
> > Should it?
>
> Manually and from root: yes. From a normal user: No.
>
> > Would it? When you use it in Eclipse,
> > are plugins placed in ~/eclipse? Thanks!
>
> In 2.1: No, as this plugin locations ('Linked in' locations) will not
> show up in the update manager. You may add your own location at any
> given place and this locations should be handled properly.
>
> Jan
>
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