* Arnaud Vandyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> * Arnaud Vandyck wrote:
>> >Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> * How to handle the two different plugins in a autmatically manner
>> >'eclipse-gtk' and 'eclipse-motif' wrappers and update-alternatives to
>> >have an 'eclipse' wrapper.
>> Just a wrapper for a simple '-ws gtk' and '-ws motif' change?
> Yes, I think it will be easier to manage it with update-alternatives.
Thats true. But that will be a maintainance nighmare, if I have to
change every bit in two or more places, just to have two different
'-ws' values...
> So, SWT can be a library completely independant of eclipse.
Yes. Thats why the swt.jar and some other things are in
/usr/share/java and /usr/lib/jni... You can build your swt app, just
like you can do with swing or awt.
>So the
> wrappers will not be valid because you'll have to face the problem of
> *every* java applications/libraries that will be build on the top of
> SWT... motif or gtk?
Yes, I just realiced that as well :(
So apart from the eclipse startscript ('-ws' problem, binary
launcher) also the library itself has to be under
update-alternatives...
> Isn't it possible to know what's available at runtime? or maybe set a
> new environment variable?
There isn't really a problem: I will use update-alternatives after
getting the motif thingies working again. The swt.jar will be
renames to swt-<ws>.jar (no problem with binary libs: they get
anyway named after the ws, which is used) and update-alternative
will set the symlink to swt.jar.
I will put that on my TODO list. A new version will probably out
next weekend (sunday night, if my Harry Potter book doesn't get in
my way :), but this probably will NOT make it into that version.
I will rename libswt-java to libswt-gtk2-java and leting it
provide libswt-java (will ask in devel about a new virtual
package first of course) and then use updatealternative to do
something about swt.jar and friends.
Any comments? Takashi?
Jan
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