Re: Eclipse 3.0

[Barry Hawkins <barry@alltc.com>]

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Jerry Haltom wrote:
| Does anybody have anything to work with on this? It seems that it may
| have inadvertently become a blocker for Ant in main. :0
|
| I've been trying to figure out what's holding Ant back. Looks like it's
| some pieces of Swing. So, we need a Swing API.... SwingSWT as a build
| dependency looks good! SwingSWT needs SWT. SWT is currently in Eclipse,
| which is, as is known, not in main.
|
| What will it take to get Eclipse 3.0 built and packaged and in main
| properly?
|
Jerry,
~    Building Eclipse 3.0 properly is going to take a considerable bit of
work.  However, the SWT libraries are packaged separately from Eclipse,
so that may not be an issue for you.  Search aptitude with the phrase
"^libswt" and you will see quite a few SWT libraries in both GTK and
Motif versions.
~    The Eclipse packaging project was abandoned by Jan Schultz in mid to
late 2004 and picked up by Joerg Wendland and a group of us under his
leadership.  We haven't made much progress yet, but now that the
holidays are over, it should start picking up.
~    You may be misguided about what is involved in getting a Debian Java
package into main; I recommend reviewing the following links below if
you have not already.

http://pkg-java.alioth.debian.org/developers.html
http://pkg-java.alioth.debian.org/building.html
http://people.debian.org/~avdyk/
http://java.debian.net/index.php/MovingJavaToMain

Regards,
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Barry Hawkins
All Things Computed
site: www.alltc.com
weblog: www.yepthatsme.com

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