Eclipse 3.1M7

[Vizion]

On Saturday 21 May 2005 18:55,  the author Vizion contributed to the dialogue 
on Re: Eclipse 3.1M7:
& On Saturday 21 May 2005 11:25,  the author Andreas Kohn contributed to the
& dialogue on Re: Eclipse 3.1M7:
& & On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 11:06 -0700, Alex Varju wrote:
& & > I've actually already submitted an update for the eclipse-devel port to
& & > 3.1m7, somebody just needs to grab it:
& & >
& & >    http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=81076
& &
& & Will test this right away, thanks!
& & /me feels slow :)
& &
& & > I discussed adding FreeBSD as a supported platform with one of the
& & > Eclipse developers, but I'm not sure how feasible this is.  The problem
& & > is that somebody still has to maintain the config files within the
& & > Eclipse tree, which isn't going to happen unless a FreeBSD developer
 has & & > commit priviledges.
& & >
& & > I agree that porting Eclipse is a huge challenge right now, I'm just
 not & & > sure how it the overall amount of work for everybody involved can
 be & & > reduced.
& &
& & Perhaps we could arrange it like OO.o or bsd# or the BSD Java
& & thing...external patchset which is managed somehow centrally? I don't
& & know either actually, but I feel that following Eclipse becomes more
& & difficult with each code drop.
&
& I will grab it and have a go this week end and report back

I have just started the compile of /usr/ports/java/eclipse-devel and 
incidentally noticed that  /usr/ports/eclipse is showing as broken on my 
FreeBSD 5.3. I did a cvs ports-all early today.
David

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