On Saturday 15 April 2006 09:11 am, Tristan Mills wrote: > Lord Sauron wrote: > > Hi, once again... > > > > I'm taking a Computer Science class in school, and they use Java for > > this class. I decided to try using Eclipse, a popular Java IDE, > > however, Eclipse appears to be masked (see # emerge --search eclipse > > output below). I don't know what to do. Does anyone have any > > suggestions? > > A bit late perhaps, but I (and several colleagues) use Eclipse on Gentoo > every day at work. > We have all found the best solution is to download from the website and > unpack it. The version in portage is very old (the 3.2 milestones are > stable enough for everyday use) and its easier to manage and install > plugins.
Yeah, it is really stale. A year ago I was using JCreator with JDK v1.5 I agree totally though: Eclipse looks better than awt or swing (though you can change their look using... I think it was UIStyle or something like that...) > Eclipse is great once you've used it a little (even with our bizarre > homebrew build systems at work) and its windowing toolkit looks far > better than AWT or Swing. All my computers are built by hand by me, so of course they're a interesting mix of ancient tech and the stuff that I can afford ; ) It's fun.
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