Re: Eclipse and swt-gtk
Hi Matthias,
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?
Well, this can be said about any package and its dependencies, still most of the
time in Debian I see effort to reuse common library packages rather than bundle
a private copy with every application.
SWT is developed together with Eclipse so updates of these two packages should
most of the time go hand in hand.
Otoh, it would be nice to
build every architecture dependent library from a separate source and make
eclipse build only binary-indep packages.
Yes this possibility exists and if there was enough interest, I think it
wouldn't be much work to split Eclipse in such a way. With SWT as the biggest
arch dependent part already removed, if I remember correctly, there is still
only native library in org.eclipse.core.filesystem, Equinox launcher and the
Eclipse executable itself.
But on the other side having such a complex package to build on all architectures
can be beneficial as a test of JVM implementation maturity on those not so
commonly used platforms, for example last build of eclipse discovered a bug in
openjdk on armel[1].
Regards,
Jakub
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=654209
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