On Aug 8, 2013, at 0:27 , Greg Lewis <gle...@eyesbeyond.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 05:03:26PM -0400, George Neville-Neil wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> Eclipse 4.2, which we have in java/eclipse-devel has been out for over a >> year and Eclipse 4.3 is "nearly done" as far >> as anyone can tell. I'd like to propose that we copy the devel port to the >> normal port, and then do two things. >> First I'd like to get Eclipse 4.2 working with openjdk7. RIght now the >> build fails but that was just a naive attempt >> to build the port with the new jdk. Secondly we can mark eclipse-devel >> broken until we can start getting 4.3 >> running in that port. >> >> Thoughts? > > Just catching up on being way behind with email... > > The port moving has been on my TODO list for far too long. Please go ahead > with it if you've got the bandwidth to do so. You probably want to apply > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=181124 to eclipse-devel first > though. > > Sounds like getting 4.3 working is going to be a pretty major effort given > the follow ups in the thread. > > I'd also like to see Eclipse working much better on FreeBSD. >
OK, unless anyone objects I will do this in the next day or so. My plan is to svn rm the old port and svn mv devel to eclipse. If there is another process to follow please let me know. I'll update the devel port to point to 4.3 and to be ignored, but then folks can start hacking on it. Best, George _______________________________________________ freebsd-eclipse@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-eclipse To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-eclipse-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
