* Ivan S. Dubrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-09-21 22:02]: > >Curiously, what does this accomplish? > > > >If you want to make Debian packages for these features, having a nice > >build environment to do so before you upload to the archive is one > >thing... but what's hte point of converting upstream stuff to .debs? It > >adds nothing. > > The idea is to control Eclipse plugins same way as you keep your system > up2dated - using the APT. Currently, updating and installing Eclipse > plugins for every user on the box is not very convenient.
This is a great idea but depends a lot on the plug-ins themselves. Many plug-ins are built in different ways and there is currently no standard way of distributing source. Ben Konrath spent time working on this problem and has a proposed solution on his website: http://www.bagu.org/eclipse/plugin-source-drops.html We need to continue this work if we are ever to have a nice, reproduceable method of building and distributing plug-ins. Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
