Eclipse 3.4 or 3.5

[Niels Thykier]

Brian and Faith Coons wrote:
> Hello,
> 

Hi

> Please forgive me if there is info that I should be aware of which would
> cause be to not ask this question or approach it differently.
> 
> I'm new to debian and I'm wondering about the status of eclipse on i386.  I
> did see that it is not in testing because of libtomcat5.5 being removed.
> And I also saw that libtomcat6 is in testing, though I have no idea on what
> is necessary to get an eclipse package working with the newer version.
> 

Actually tomcat is not the issue; eclipse 3.4.1 fails in 2 different
ways to build from source causing outdated binaries on all platforms
except i386, amd64 and one other (and parts of the binaries for those 3
platforms are - even though the build "succeeds" - not built from
source. If you check the signature of the swt libraries, then they are
"compiled" for amd64).

> My question, in short, do you have any idea when an eclipse 3.4 or 3.5
> package will be available in testing?  3.4 or greater is recommended by
> Google for Android development.
> 
> What is necessary and is there anything I can do to help?  I have experience
> building and installing source packages, but I've never created a .deb (or
> other package for that matter.)
> 

We are working on getting eclipse 3.5.2 ready. I would love to give you
a time estimate, but unfortunately every estimate I have given so far
has always been utterly wrong as we keep running into new issues.

Currently we are trying to remove some pre-compiled binary files from
the sources (and making sure it still builds), plus figuring out a
regression with symlinks being broken.

You are more than welcome to join us; we are a subset of the pkg-java
team, so optimally you should join that team as well (to get commit
access to our VCS [1]). We usually communicate via IRC on #debian-java
(on irc.debian.org) and #eclipse-linux (on irc.freenode.net). You can
catch us there.

The build itself takes 3 GB of free HD space (beyond the sources of 500+
MB and without its dependencies) and 2+ GB of RAM is a recommendation.
My machines only have 1GB and have to use swap for the rest adding over
90+ minutes to the build time (plus makes the machines unresponsive
during "peak" usage).

You are also more than welcome to checkout the eclipse sources from our
VCS and build a package for yourself for local use (in that case I
recommend that you lower the version number or else the first updated
eclipse package to reach Debian will not be installed on your computer,
since apt will think that eclipse is up to date).
  An important thing to remember when going from old eclipse packages to
3.5.2 is that the older versions extracted shared libraries into
~/.eclipse. eclipse 3.5 will try to use them if they are present causing
a crash. So when upgrading to our 3.5.2, please remember to rename or
remove ~/.eclipse before the first run. eclipse 3.5.2 and beyond will
not extract shared libraries (from plugins installed via Debian/Ubuntu's
repositories - it is a different matter for things installed via
eclipse's own update manager).

> Thanks,
> Brian
> 
> --
> I am a time traveler.  I have visited the past.  I will be visiting the
> future soon.  My travel is at a contstant speed and direction.  -bcoons
> 
> 
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~Niels

[1] http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-java/eclipse.git


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