From owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 26 19:18:06 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84618106566B for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:18:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glewis@eyesbeyond.com) Received: from misty.eyesbeyond.com (gerbercreations.com [71.39.140.16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23C9313C4F0 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:18:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glewis@eyesbeyond.com) Received: from misty.eyesbeyond.com (localhost.eyesbeyond.com [127.0.0.1]) by misty.eyesbeyond.com (8.13.1/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m1QJHhps081765; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:17:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from glewis@eyesbeyond.com) Received: (from glewis@localhost) by misty.eyesbeyond.com (8.13.1/8.13.3/Submit) id m1QJHfVD081764; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:17:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from glewis@eyesbeyond.com) X-Authentication-Warning: misty.eyesbeyond.com: glewis set sender to glewis@eyesbeyond.com using -f Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:17:41 -0800 From: Greg Lewis To: ken Message-ID: <20080226191741.GB81385@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <20080219213031.GB85220@osiris.chen.org.nz> <20080220.103213.233678772.ken@tydfam.jp> <47BB8C82.2000909@buzmo.com> <20080220.131304.-345497826.ken@tydfam.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080220.131304.-345497826.ken@tydfam.jp> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsd-eclipse@freebsd.org, mbowie@buzmo.com, pieter@degoeje.nl, glewis@eyebeyond.com.eyesbeyond.com, freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: java/eclipse and jdk1.6 X-BeenThere: freebsd-java@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting Java to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:18:06 -0000 On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 01:13:04PM +0900, ken wrote: > Yea, I am surviving... > I am using it and touching it every time I have a problem. So, it is a turtle walk... > About plugins; > I know that JBossTools GUI which requires newer version of xulrunner does not work properly. Also, GUI editor of eclipse may/may not work. I am not sure if it is updated recently or not, though. > > I understand that Eclipse schedules to update every spring and fall. And next version for spring will be 3.4 (now it is 3.4M5). So, we may better settle the port before the new release comes in. Unless there are other showstoppers, I would agree that its about time to move 3.3.1 from eclipse-devel to eclipse. That will trigger problems with many of the plugins though, so there is more work here than just moving a single port over. What we need is to get people to volunteer to try and build all plugins to check whether they fail (at least) and then hopefully update/fix them (or mark them broken if noone is interested in fixing them). > I see that we have emacs (22), emacs21 and emacs-devel in /usr/ports/editors, and I feel that it is suggestiong the way we manage eclipse under /usr/ports/java - current version = eclipse, previous version = eclipseXX, and next version = eclipse-devel. Implicit in this is that you'd need to maintain multiple versions of some of the plugins, so you're proposing more than 3 ports here. The question this raises for me is whether there are enough people active in ports who are interested enough in Eclipse that they're prepared to commit to this. If there aren't I would suggest sticking with the current model. -- Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com Information Technology FreeBSD : glewis@FreeBSD.org