Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 18:01:33 +0100 (MET) From: Marc Ernst Eddy van Woerkom <Marc.Vanwoerkom@FernUni-Hagen.de> To: marc@informatik.uni-bremen.de Cc: Marc.Vanwoerkom@FernUni-Hagen.de, java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Eclipse under FreeBSD Message-ID: <200302071701.h17H1XB24938@bonsai.fernuni-hagen.de> In-Reply-To: <39150000.1044627446@leeloo.intern.geht.de> (message from Marc Recht on Fri, 07 Feb 2003 15:17:26 %2B0100)
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> I had started a native (motif) port a while ago. And there is a gtk port=20 > (sorry, forgot the name)... I have not spotted those in the ports tree. Were they reported on this mailing list? > But, since I've switched to NetBSD (and all what's happening in the FreeBSD = > project (Dillon, Huey,..) lately makes me think it's the right decision), I = > stopped working on it. I'm pretty agnostic about the BSD flavour. The social factor is very important, you should stick with the guys you can happily cooperate with. I met Greg from core once he was in Cologne and he seemed a very experienced guy with a down to earth attitude, thus in Matt's case I trust him. The Huey affair I haven't even noticed yet. :) But anyway, the long term target should be to get ports working for as many BSDs as possible. > I've you want to pick-up the ball I send all the = > stuff over to you. It still needs some work, but is working.. I would really be thankful for this. I guess it would save me quite some trouble. > The biggest/only problem is that the eclipse guys don't supply a makefile,=20 > so you have to set up the build infrastructure yourself.. Everything else=20 > is straight forward, since most of the code is written in Java and SWT=20 > itself is quite portable.. I have no good overview of the Eclipse development yet. Guess I have to read to a lot of articles on the site to understand what is going on. My goals are: 1. get Eclipse running under FreeBSD 2. understand some of the plugins (like Java, C++, and that GEF stuff) 3. join development of the plugin for Erlang Regards from Cologne, Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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