Re: When is a package ready to go into main?
Hallo Daniel,
* Daniel Bonniot wrote:
>As others have stated, eclipse handles pretty sensitive data (sources),
>so being
>conservative is appropriate.
I also agree with this opinion, so eclipse will stay out of main for
the next time.
Anybody willing to do a PPC upload? I have a bugreport, which IMO will
go away when a new PPC upload is made.
>run on a free vm, it does not mean that users cannot run it on a
>non-free vm is they happen to have one. I guess the startup scripts
>could either use /usr/bin/java and let the user use the alternatives
>system to choose their vm, or if using find-java or manually looking for
>a vm, give the priority to a sub or blackdown vm if one is present,
>since they are know to work better in this case.
I already do such a thing. More or less. Getting findjava spec'ed and
packages would be a good thing, though :)
http://java.debian.net/index.php/CommonJavaPackaging
>>Please note, that eclipse currently requires a prebuild tomcat and
>>xerces (IBM Maintance branch), so it can't go into main for that reason.
>Then it's a good reason to wait for them (and send bug reports to Kaffe
>if you can).
Ther eisn'T any problem with kaffe, but with the source for both. I
don't think that we should have a 'eclipse-xerces' (we had, BTW, but
it didn't work, as teh eclipse supplyed sources are not fit to build
from them. They are only usefull for code lookup). And I certainly
don't intent to package a old and probably changed version of tomcat.
>BTW, any plans for packaging eclipse 3.0?
I just started.
My current plan is to package both swt versions as different source
packages (motif will never go to main, so...) and probably the
eclipse-javac, too. All will have a 'eclipse independed' package and
one containing the plugin data (dirs, plugin.xml and so on)
The rest of eclipse will go into one main source package and be split
ito RCP, IDE, JDT, PDE and source and webdav-ftp. Maybe more, if RCP
evolves (update can be split from IDE and be used independly with RCP)
and more packages uses it as a base for there apps.
Anyway, the thing I'm doing just now is writing a script to do the
work :) I want to build from CVS and I'm currently setting up the
'basebuilder' to do it for me.
Ok, enough chat :)
Jan
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