Eclipse 3.1M7

[Vizion]

On Sunday 22 May 2005 08:31,  the author Vizion contributed to the dialogue on 
Re: Eclipse 3.1M7:
& 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
&
Built fine - no problems -- I will play -- thank you so much

David
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