Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 13:22:50 -0400 From: Benjamin Korvemaker <bfkorvem+freebsd@uwaterloo.ca> To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Eclipse 3.1M7 Message-ID: <20050521172250.GP28718@plg2.math> In-Reply-To: <1116675388.23739.4.camel@klamath.syndrom23.de> References: <1116675388.23739.4.camel@klamath.syndrom23.de>
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On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 01:36:27PM +0200, Andreas Kohn wrote: > Hi, > > there is a new milestone of Eclipse available, 3.1M7. It looks like > bigger parts of the build infrastructure have changed, and I'm thinking > about how to port it. Is anyone else working on it currently? > > Actually, I think it would be easier to stop pretending that we are > linux sometimes, and sometimes not, and instead create a bigger patchset > which will add a complete freebsd OS definition. Perhaps our goal should > even be to have freebsd added to the list of supported OS's, to reduce > further porting effort for each new Eclipse code drop. > > What do you guys think? I'd recommend the latter. From a conversation I had with an Eclipse developer, at least some of the patches already used (I don't which ones) could/should have been sent upstream. Ben
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