On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 00:04 -0600, Jerry Haltom wrote: > Following up on my earlier notification of Eclipse 3.0 packages. > > They now successfully compile Eclipse and **RUN** Eclipse using a Free > JVM (Kaffe). This means, excluding a few packages, Eclipse 3.0 is ALMOST > clear to go into main.
Did you by any chance try to use some non-GPLed free JVM to do it? There are serious legal issues with with making CPLed Eclipse code build-dependant (and being run) on a GPLed JVM. It is mainly because a) running a program on a JVM involves linking b) CPL (the same as APL, used for Ant or Tomcat) is badly incompatible with GPL. See http://sablevm.org/wiki/License_FAQ for details. > The packages are hard coded for i386 right now. This shouldn't be too > hard to fix, as we build completely with open source tools. Eclipse has > an odd architecture setup however which I have not yet mastered. Did you try to build other architectures? If the build process involves using a JVM then it would be best to use a JVM that works on as many architectures supported by Debian as possible. Last time I asked Dalibor it still had serious troubles on many non-x86 architectures. > I want to know about everybody's efforts to build these packages on > their systems. I have had a FEW lock-ups during development involving > Kaffe... few, but it happens. If this happens, stack traces are needed. In SableVM we had to slightly change some class-loading inner workings to avoid deadlocks while running Eclipse. Would be interesting to know whether you can observe the same problems with SableVM 1.1.8 too. > Please enjoy! Nonenthless, this *IS* awesome. Great work! Grzegorz B. Prokopski -- Grzegorz B. Prokopski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SableVM - Free, LGPL'ed Java VM http://sablevm.org Why SableVM ?!? http://sablevm.org/wiki/Features Debian GNU/Linux - the Free OS http://www.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
