Hi, The Eclipse Linux Tools project has been working on a common way for all distributions to build the Eclipse SDK. The Eclipse project upstream does not have time to produce archives that are suitable for distributions to use as input to their builds so we've taken on this work. The upstream release engineers and others are very helpful and do not object to our work.
We're not 100% finished yet, but we're getting closer and we'd like to pre-announce the work to the Debian Java team since building the Eclipse SDK has come up recently on the debian-java mailing list. We've un-imaginatively named the work we're doing "eclipse-build". At a high level it will: - bootstrap the parts of the Eclipse SDK that are necessary to build the Eclipse SDK - build the Eclipse SDK with the bootstrapped bits - use p2 to provision the built SDK In an ideal world we'd have no patches, but if there are any patches, we'll apply them before the bootstrap. When we've got a method for building a working installation, we'll do a broader announcement to get some testing and so that we can all work together to have a standard procedure. We really hope that everyone will come together in this effort so that we're not all re-inventing the wheel and duplicating effort in our attempts to have Eclipse technology packaged in our distros. If anyone's interested in our under-documented work-in-progress, everything is in the Eclipse Linux Tools SVN repository: svn co http://dev.eclipse.org/svnroot/technology/org.eclipse.linuxtools/eclipse-build/trunk/eclipse-build Running buildSource.sh is a good way to get started. That will create source tarballs for use by the build. Then, running the Eclipse antRunner application from a recent eclipse.org build on the main build.xml *should* produce an installation. No guarantees :) I started filing some bugs with things we need to do. There are undoubtedly many more that should be filed, but it's a start. The list is here: http://preview.tinyurl.com/mr4yvl I'd like to re-iterate that we're a small group, amenable to discussions, patches, modifications, etc. We look forward to working with you. Continuing any discussion on linuxtools-...@eclipse.org [1] is probably best. Thanks, Andrew (on behalf of the Eclipse Linux Tools project) [1] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxtools-dev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org