Re: Current status of your swt-gtk package
Shaun Jackman (sjackman@gmail.com):
> > as we spoke some time ago you wanted to get your swt-gtk packages to
> > testing and then supersede them by the ones generate from the new
> > Eclispe 3.1 (3.1.1 in the meanwhile). My packages are ready and
> > gracefully work as a replacement to your packages. While doing this
> > work I checked your package and saw that it violates the Debian Java
> > Policy in more then one way. Sure, the things are easy to fix. I
> > just wonder if you or we should put work into this and then throw it
> > away later.
> >
> > At DevJam meeting I spoke with several people about the situation.
> > They all think we should replace the existing swt-gtk package as
> > soon as possible to give it enough time to stabilize and get testing
> > through a big userbase before the next release of Debian. Whenever
> > that will happen.
> >
> > What's your opinion about this now?
>
> Billy Biggs, an SWT developer, is working on producing a separate SWT
> source package.
Shaun and Michael,
I'm sort of torn on this issue myself though.
- In my opinion, SWT should have a source download that is more easily
buildable, and so I'm working on this.
However, the Eclipse srcIncluded zip is maybe better for this as it
is now.
- The SWT plug-in is different in its filesystem layout in the
Eclipse plugins folder than the standalone SWT.
However, the source code is clearly the same, and it is easy to
create SWT source packages since its only the final filesystem
layout that differs.
So regardless of what you guys want to do, know that I don't really
have a strong opinion on the matter. I think if it were up to me, I'd
just go with Michael's packages since I think it will be easier to
coordinate fixing bugs.
-Billy
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