eclipse version in repository

Pantelis Koukousoulas pktoss at gmail.com
Thu Jun 4 15:47:37 UTC 2009


> Actually im on the way of repackage it (for my needs) , but im way not
> a debian developer.

This is not a problem, I am not a DD either. We have at least one DD though
willing to help with sponsoring etc if the technical problems are solved.

> What is the policy about eclipse plugins ? should they be in seperate
> package or in the eclipse

Unfortunately there is no official policy for that. It is one of the problems.
E.g., a possible issue is Equinox (the eclipse OSGi runtime). It would
be best if it were distributed separately (since a few people use it
standalone) but this makes maintainance harder.

For now a policy that splits eclipse to packages the same way it is done
for eclipse 3.2 is probably fine. Important "plugins" (like cdt/jdt) should
be installed in a place like /usr/share/eclipse/dropins, each plugin in
its own dir.

This avoids interoperability problems with eclipse P2 at least until a better
integration between apt/dpkg and P2 is developed.

> currently im working only on the java part (since that is what i need ) .

Well, the core and jdt are by far the hardest, so if you can solve this
it will be a big win already. You could look at Fedora's eclipse-build
and my eclipse-debian package for some ideas.

You could also look at the eclipse-ubuntu project. That one was the
most active last time I looked (I think).

HTH,
Pantelis



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