Re: Eclipse and swt-gtk
On 01/16/2012 04:45 PM, Jakub Adam wrote:
> Hi Niels,
>
>> Do you know if this stops eclipse from "extracting/installing" the SWT
>> binaries into ~/.eclipse ?
>
> Yes it does, only SWT binaries left are the ones in /usr/lib/jni installed by
> libswt-gtk-3-jni (and other swt -jni packages).
>
>> I originally created the "debian-load-internal-swt.patch"
>> patch to fix that, though as I recall it was not as effective as I had
>> hoped.
>
> I noticed that patch and dropped it during the process as there is no need
> for /usr/lib/eclipse/debian-swt directory anymore.i
is this really that a good idea to use the external swt-gtk in eclipse? what if
an updated swt-gtk is uploaded that breaks eclipse? Otoh, it would be nice to
build every architecture dependent library from a separate source and make
eclipse build only binary-indep packages.
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