On 2012-01-15 00:30, Jakub Adam wrote: > Hi Niels, > > thanks for your explanation of the SWT and Eclipse relationships. > >> [...] > I agree with this, eclipse is a huge beast and having swt-gtk for practical > reasons makes sense. So I tried to approach the problem from the other side > and updated eclipse build to not compile its own SWT but use the one we > already have in libswt-gtk-*. So far everything works smoothly, including > for example web browser integration. This way we get the best of both > worlds - > only one copy of swt in the system and maintainers still have a package > that > is easier to handle and usable even in case that eclipse becomes broken > again > anytime in the future. > > I pushed my changes to the git repos[1][2], I think it is not so big > that it > deserves a new upload of eclipse on its own, so I will not send any RFS > for now, > waiting for some bigger update. > > Regards, > > Jakub > > [1] > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-java/swt-gtk.git;a=commit;h=63117c4f32da3238d9801ddae2627ad60f2e14a1 > > [2] > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-java/eclipse.git;a=commit;h=0c33b0e9288abfc0cdcad52ea17dbbebd98fb102 > > >
That sounds good. :) Do you know if this stops eclipse from "extracting/installing" the SWT binaries into ~/.eclipse ? I know this has been a repeating issue with eclipse. I originally created the "debian-load-internal-swt.patch" patch to fix that, though as I recall it was not as effective as I had hoped. ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f142226.7090...@thykier.net
