Re: [CentOS] CentOS & eclipse

2013-12-27 Thread Devin Reade
The usual explanations about why version numbers are what they are in CentOS apply. However, taking off my systems hat for a minute and put on my software development hat, in the case of Eclipse I wouldn't suggest using the one available via RPM anyway. During software development just as you wa

Re: [CentOS] CentOS & eclipse

2013-12-27 Thread John R Pierce
On 12/27/2013 6:07 AM, Steve wrote: > "Eclipse is now offered in the Red Hat Developer Toolset offering" > so does that mean it will just be in a different repo for CentOS 7 or will > eclipse really not be available at all (as an RPM)? its a seperate subscription from Red Hat, see the bottom of h

Re: [CentOS] CentOS & eclipse

2013-12-27 Thread Steve
Ned Slider wrote: > On 26/12/13 21:56, Cliff Pratt wrote: > > Probably not 4.3. Maybe 4.0 or 4.1. It is still going to be behind the > > latest release. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Cliff > > > > Eclipse has been completely removed from RHEL7, at least in the beta > release. > > Please see th

Re: [CentOS] CentOS & eclipse

2013-12-27 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 26.12.2013 um 20:48 schrieb Steve : > > OK, so since RHEL 6.0 was released on 11/10/2010, we get eclipse 3.6 which > was released on 6/23/2010 (according to Wikipedia) > and we can only get 3.6.x updates until RHEL 7.0 is release. If RHEL 7.0 was > released today, eclipse would jump to 4.3 (i

Re: [CentOS] CentOS & eclipse

2013-12-26 Thread Ned Slider
On 26/12/13 21:56, Cliff Pratt wrote: > Probably not 4.3. Maybe 4.0 or 4.1. It is still going to be behind the > latest release. > > Cheers, > > Cliff > Eclipse has been completely removed from RHEL7, at least in the beta release. Please see the beta release notes: https://access.redhat.com/sit

Re: [CentOS] CentOS & eclipse

2013-12-26 Thread Cliff Pratt
Probably not 4.3. Maybe 4.0 or 4.1. It is still going to be behind the latest release. Cheers, Cliff On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Steve wrote: > > John R Pierce wrote: > > On 12/26/2013 10:50 AM, Steve wrote: > > > My understanding was that CentOS was generally about a year > out-of

Re: [CentOS] CentOS & eclipse

2013-12-26 Thread Steve
John R Pierce wrote: > On 12/26/2013 10:50 AM, Steve wrote: > > My understanding was that CentOS was generally about a year out-of-date. > > > When a major RHEL version is released, the major.minor versions of most > all components are frozen for the life cycle of that major release, thi

Re: [CentOS] CentOS & eclipse

2013-12-26 Thread John R Pierce
On 12/26/2013 10:50 AM, Steve wrote: > My understanding was that CentOS was generally about a year out-of-date. When a major RHEL version is released, the major.minor versions of most all components are frozen for the life cycle of that major release, this ensures package compatability, so if s

Re: [CentOS] CentOS & eclipse

2013-12-26 Thread Eero Volotinen
2013/12/26 Steve > I'm running an up-to-date CentOS 6.5 and I wanted to install eclipse so I > went to System->Adminitration->Add/Remove Software and installed > eclipse-cdt-1:7.0.1-4.el6 and a bunch of dependent packages. > > >From the eclipse help menu I see that this is version 3.6.1. Accordin