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From: Benjamin Korvemaker <bfkorvem+freebsd@uwaterloo.ca>
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Subject: Re: Eclipse 3.1M7
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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