Hi, This email is a general request for information about using Eclipse (both packaged or downloaded directly from upstream) on Debian systems.
There is a packaging wiki page[1], it links to a missing page https://wiki.debian.org/Eclipse - would somebody consider creating that page and maybe adding answers to some of these questions there? Some high-level questions: - the current version of the package[2] is 3.8 (Juno), are there any fundamental issues with newer versions or is it just a lack of manpower? - for people who want to download later versions (e.g. Oxygen) directly from upstream, could anybody comment on the JVM (OpenJDK or Oracle) and version to use on the current and previous Debian stable release? Maybe a table on the wiki with Debian versions, JVM versions and Eclipse versions would be useful if anybody is inclined to create it. - upstream provides their own mechanism for adding and updating packages within Eclipse. Could anybody comment on some of the implications for Linux users, in particular: - how to ensure several hosts (laptop, office desktop, home desktop) have an identical set of plugins - how to ensure several hosts (laptop, office desktop, home desktop) have identical settings - is a diff of the settings tree sufficient? - how to rollback to a known good state - how to keep several team members (shared filesystem or separate hosts) in sync or help new team members/contributors start quickly with a preferred configuration - could people create local plugin repositories to achieve some of those things? - best practices for Linux developers (either upstream or Debian) using things like the Eclipse CDT and Autotools support - for example, I notice the default clean is "distclean" but some people may prefer a regular "clean", are there other gotchas like this? - another example: the autotools support can do things like running configure but some people may prefer to do most of that from the command line and only let Eclipse run the make command I realize that due to the nature of Eclipse there are not easy answers to some of these things but it would still be useful to have a quick summary of things for the wiki. Regards, Daniel 1. https://wiki.debian.org/Eclipse/Packaging 2. https://packages.qa.debian.org/e/eclipse.html
