Re: why I think SWT should be built from eclipse

[Shaun Jackman <sjackman@gmail.com>]

2005/10/14, Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>:
> sorry, again, you are wrong. _you_ are maintaining your own copy.

I am maintaining not my own copy of SWT, but the *only* copy of SWT in
main. Speaking of vapourware, Eclipse in main is just that at present.

> Shaun, I get the impression, that you stick to this package for no
> obvious reasons (besides the current issue of eclipse still targeted
> to contrib). Please consider joining the Java maintainers and
> maintaining the swt-gtk packages from one source.

I am standing by the standalone version of SWT because I think it is
technically better to maintain a library used by multiple applications
in its own source package, and not within an application source
package. Look, by example, at GTK (GIMP Toolkit) which is maintained
in the source package gtk+2.0 and certainly not in the GIMP.

However, I seem to be in the minority here though. So, I'll propose
this as a test case: once Eclipse is in main, and its SWT packages are
in main, I'll rebuild Azureus against Eclipse's SWT. Once that's
working, I'll stand down and remove the standalone SWT. Fair enough?

Cheers,
Shaun