Hi Matthias,
is this really that a good idea to use the external swt-gtk in eclipse? what if an updated swt-gtk is uploaded that breaks eclipse?
Well, this can be said about any package and its dependencies, still most of the time in Debian I see effort to reuse common library packages rather than bundle a private copy with every application. SWT is developed together with Eclipse so updates of these two packages should most of the time go hand in hand.
Otoh, it would be nice to build every architecture dependent library from a separate source and make eclipse build only binary-indep packages.
Yes this possibility exists and if there was enough interest, I think it wouldn't be much work to split Eclipse in such a way. With SWT as the biggest arch dependent part already removed, if I remember correctly, there is still only native library in org.eclipse.core.filesystem, Equinox launcher and the Eclipse executable itself. But on the other side having such a complex package to build on all architectures can be beneficial as a test of JVM implementation maturity on those not so commonly used platforms, for example last build of eclipse discovered a bug in openjdk on armel[1]. Regards, Jakub [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=654209 -- 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/4f1897ff.9060...@ktknet.cz
