Re: Could someone provide a recap of available Eclipse 3.x packages?
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 01:42:56PM +0100, Christophe Porteneuve wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I try to follow the list assiduously, but I somehow fail to grasp an accurate picture of the status of 3.x packaging.
>
> I'm a Java/J2EE teacher at an IT college, and we mostly use Linux in labs (Debian GNU/Linux unstable). For several reasons, we decided to go with java-package and Sun's original releases, despite their being
> non-free. So we're not immediately impacted by this or that packaging of Eclipse 3.x not running on, say, Kaffe or SableVM.
>
> However, the eclipse-xxx (mostly -sdk and -jdt) in unstable/main are still on 2.1.3, so far as I can see. The 3.x branch has tons of improvements that our students use at home, and that we as teachers use on our
> workstations, but that are sorely missed in hands-on classes.
>
> Could someone take a few moments to post (either on the list or as a personal reply, if you feel that's list-irrelevant) the status of 3.x packaging able to run over Sun-based java-package-created packages? We
> currently use 1.4.2_06 on lab boxes.
>
> Also, is there some clear, concise info as to when such packages are *expected* (which, of course, is often a floating issue) to go to main, so that some apt-get upgrade could get those in a more standardized way
> than manually getting and installing them? (supposing package dependencies would work on our JDK packages)
There are 3.0.1 packages from Jerry Haltom on mentors.debian.net. They
use kaffe to run afaik.
I started packagin 3.1M5a based on this work. This will soon be
available on the Eclipse project on alioth.debian.org. We can give no
timeframe as this depends on may factors. E.g. we want to depend on
gcc-4.0 but this is not even released yet. Other problem is that
dependencies are not in main. They need to be checked and moved to it.
All in all its much work but I will try to keep the list updated.
Michael.
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