Re: Building the Eclipse SDK: eclipse-build 0.0.2

2009-06-29 Thread Pantelis Koukousoulas
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Andrew Overholt wrote: > Hi, > > I figured this would be of interest to some here.  I encourage those > interested to work with the Eclipse Linux Tools project upstream.  We're > on #eclipse-linux on Freenode and our mailing list is: > > https://dev.eclipse.org/mail

Re: Active Java packagers

2009-06-16 Thread Pantelis Koukousoulas
> We've kicked around the idea of p2 talking to PackageKit via D-Bus. > This would be less intrusive than re-working how profile synchronization > works and wouldn't be that hard.  I think Alex may have a working > prototype. That would work too :) The ability for eclipse to talk d-bus would be v

Re: Active Java packagers

2009-06-16 Thread Pantelis Koukousoulas
>> 3) Figure out a filesystem layout for plug-ins. An idea could be to do >> as Fedora does and use e.g., /usr/share/eclipse/ (thus >> staying out of P2's way) or figure out how to integrate apt with P2 >> (this will need development of a debian/apt specific "touchpoint" in >> P2-speak, at least as

Re: Active Java packagers

2009-06-16 Thread Pantelis Koukousoulas
> I'd love to know who this "ubuntu guy" is so we can coordinate efforts > :) I have already told you (and to Alexander Kurtakov) :) He is Nathan Summers (aka rockwalrus). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas.

Re: Active Java packagers

2009-06-16 Thread Pantelis Koukousoulas
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Jens Kapitza wrote: > >> I can help to package some of the deps if needed. > > I can offer my time if some can tell me how i can help. > Which bugs should be fixed first? > Is there some kind of roadmap? > Well a "rough" roadmap would go like this: 1) Package depen

Re: Active Java packagers

2009-06-16 Thread Pantelis Koukousoulas
>> Can someone post a list of needed deps and URLs to tarballs? > > And then maybe someone can find/file RFPs for those, and add them as > blocking bugs of #432350. > > (Here is a nice short task for casual contributors BTW.) Fedora has a nice list of eclipse dependencies. There are also bugs in l

Re: Active Java packagers

2009-06-16 Thread Pantelis Koukousoulas
> About Eclipse, someone (a DD probably) should become the leader and > dispatch the tasks... Leader or no leader, the best thing to do right now is to help packaging the dependencies of Eclipse. Unlike eclipse itself, its dependencies are typically not complexity monsters or anything and it would

Re: Eclipse 3.4 packaging - help needed

2009-04-26 Thread Pantelis Koukousoulas
> >From what I gather from earlier e-mails, the issues are: > > * Packaging the new third party packages required by eclipse, > particularly ECF that > require a Maven2 toolchain for compilation that doesn't run off-line > in upstream (but > there are Fedora patches we can use). Eclipse has quite