On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 11:57:03AM -0600, Jerry Haltom wrote: > My goal is to make Eclipse work out of the box perfectly with GCJ 4.0. > Obviously, the end user (you) can switch or choose whatever VM he wants > on his own. I am not going to invest my time with making Eclipse run on > other VMs. Patches are accepted. ;)
Yeah, basing on GCJ 4.0 and providing native Eclipse by default looks like a very goode idea. As this means we need to compile java to bytecode/jars first with well get support for non-native runtimes for free. I'm willing to invest my time test it with most available free VMs. Non-free VMs can and should be supported too but they should not be top priority. > Eclipse does not use Swing. So, the missing support for swing in > Classpath is not of much consequence to this. Right. > > ~ Targeting an interim step, where the goal is to get a really > > well-formed, modular packaging of Eclipse's components in contrib with > > it running on non-free VMs would serve to break the work into more > > manageable steps or phases. Once a really solid, buttoned-down package > > that at least builds well on x86 and PowerPC is in place, effort can > > focus on a move to main, with the assurance of a solid packaging > > foundation beneath us. > > > > III. Choosing An Initial Source Version > > ~ There has been some talk about this on IRC #debian-java of late, and > > the consensus seems to be that going with 3.1 as an initial version is a > > good idea. I personally endorse this, as I assisted on a bug report > > with Eclipse[3] that enables a successful build on PowerPC Linux with > > GTK. Prior to the 3.1 development stream, this build was very broken. > > Starting with anything prior to 3.1 will require us to fix/patch quite a > > bit of stuff that has been remediated in the 3.1 stream. > > That's fine with me. I missed my goal for Ubuntu Hoary, which was my > main reason for wanting a stable release anyways. I assume 3.1 will be > released before next October. =) I really hope that we have a mostly stable Eclipse packaged some time before that date. Michael -- Java Trap: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
