Updating Eclipse

Pascal Rapicault pascal at rapicorp.com
Fri Jan 9 18:43:51 UTC 2015


Hi,

My name is Pascal Rapicault. I'm a long time committer on the Eclipse 
platform, and I've recently been tasked by Ericsson to:
1 - bring new versions of Eclipse to debian
2 - make sure the experience of using eclipse on debian is good (from an 
installation pov)
3 - make sure the user can get multiple versions of Eclipse installed at 
the same time but not all merged (e.g. IDE for C/C++, IDE for Java, etc.)
4 - find a way to streamline the push of Eclipse to debian

I recently worked on a mechanism that creates debian packages from an 
eclipse distro as a single package (all the jars and other files are in 
one package) and is also able to collect the dependencies on native 
packages. This works quite well since it makes it easy for the users to 
get a functional starting point (IDE for Java, IDE for C/C++) that they 
can customize, and allows multiple IDEs to be installed separately.

Now a couple questions:
- Would the package I describe above be suitable to be made available in 
the main debian repo? (I assume no, but I may as well check :))
- What are the reasons why Eclipse is no longer updated, technical, 
political, volunteers?
- What are the requirements to package Eclipse for debian?
- What are the most "painful" aspects of this process?

Thanks in advance,

Pascal




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