Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:37:06 +0000 From: "Stephane E. Potvin" <sepotvin@FreeBSD.org> To: eclipse@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Eclipse 3.4.2 update Message-ID: <49EA39F2.1010906@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <49EA1485.7000001@videotron.ca> References: <49EA1485.7000001@videotron.ca>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Stephane E. Potvin wrote: > Here's the long overdue update from eclipse 3.4.1 to 3.4.2. There's a > lot of improvements bundled with the update in the way that the eclipse > platform is built on FreeBSD. > > - We are now installing a real eclipse product. > - Only the jar files for the platform are built, dramatically reducing > the time necessary to build (thanks to the Fedora devs for the idea and > the basic procedure). > - Lot of small fixes to the build procedure to make future imports easier > - Some of the bundles are pre-extracted during install to improve > launching time. > - jdk1.6 is required to build but any jre (1.5 or 1.6) can be used in > Preferences->Java->Installed JREs. Java 1.4 is unfortunately not > supported at this time. > - Switch to x86_64 architecture name instead of amd64 to be more in-line > with mainline eclipse. > > The bad news is that after this update, all the plugins installed as a > user with the Update Manager will have to be reinstalled. The location > of the eclipse metadata has moved to be more in-line with what's used on > other OSes (like linux). Future updates to 3.4.x should not require > reinstalling plugins, simply running the 'setup-user' target should be > sufficient. > > If I get enough positive feedback, I'll ask that it get committed after > the freeze for 7.2 is over. > > The update can be found there: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~sepotvin/eclipse-342-rc1.diff > I forgot to mention that libxul is not supported as Gecko provider and is the new default. I've only tested with it and firefox, though I expect the other options to work correctly. Steph -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknqOfIACgkQmdOXtTCX/nu9kgCfcM4Gaf+m2PJqVD8OckMKVMFq kyIAoPAbISAzJF4AmeJwVIaVsn1EDqsH =SQ5/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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