From owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 21 18:07:17 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C04B816A4CE for ; Sat, 21 May 2005 18:07:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pd4mo3so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FF5243D9B for ; Sat, 21 May 2005 18:07:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from alex@varju.ca) Received: from pd2mr5so.prod.shaw.ca (pd2mr5so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.8]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IGU0055NQA9R0D0@l-daemon> for freebsd-java@freebsd.org; Sat, 21 May 2005 12:06:09 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml8so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.152]) by pd2mr5so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IGU00LLCQA9P930@pd2mr5so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-java@freebsd.org; Sat, 21 May 2005 12:06:09 -0600 (MDT) Received: from alex.varju.ca (S010600095beeacbb.vc.shawcable.net [24.83.192.139]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0IGU00DJOQA9M0@l-daemon> for freebsd-java@freebsd.org; Sat, 21 May 2005 12:06:09 -0600 (MDT) Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=[IPv6:::1]) by alex.varju.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.51 (FreeBSD)) id 1DZYMS-000FoD-W9; Sat, 21 May 2005 11:06:09 -0700 Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 11:06:08 -0700 From: Alex Varju In-reply-to: <1116675388.23739.4.camel@klamath.syndrom23.de> To: "'freebsd-java@freebsd.org'" Message-id: <428F7890.8070305@varju.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <1116675388.23739.4.camel@klamath.syndrom23.de> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050518) cc: andreas.kohn@gmx.net Subject: Re: Eclipse 3.1M7 X-BeenThere: freebsd-java@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting Java to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 18:07:17 -0000 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 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. Alex. 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? > > Regards, > Andreas >