On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, Paul Mattal wrote:
All,
After much of my hair is missing on account of tearing it out (David
Rosenstrauch's too) trying to get everything we want out of an Eclipse
build-- or even just a version that can consistently build-- I'm planning to
switch main eclipse over to the prebuilt binary.
Why? Here's the reasons:
1) Better compatibility. The eclipse foundation uses something like 7 JVMs in
their build process, and builds everything for optimal compatibility.
2) The eclipse foundation's build process is "too complicated for you" and
can't be recreated by mere mortals.
3) The annoying "Assembling..." bug that has plagued us for years and causes
only 1 out of every 5-10 attempts to make eclipse to actually work.
4) No clear benefit (possibly a little sacrificed speed) of continuing to
build from source.
So I'm waiting until Wednesday (7/3) to hear counterpoints on this, and then
switching the main eclipse and eclipse-cdt packages over to build from
eclipse foundation binaries. Please register your feedback here!
Best,
Paul
Are there binaries available for x86_64? If not, that could be a problem.
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