On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Oli Warner <o...@thepcspy.com> wrote: > Jaunty is shipping Eclipse version 3.2. That's about two years old -- a > massive amount of time -- and since then there have been innumerable fixes. > There has been a bug calling for its upgrade since 3.3 came out 20-something > months ago. That bug has since gone through versions 3.4, 3.4.1 and now > 3.4.2. > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eclipse/+bug/123064 > > If this were an insignificant and very niche tool, but it's not; Eclipse > earns four stars in the popularity contest (only beaten by the Python > runtimes for obvious reasons). > > The community appears to be failing at getting this packaged. People try, > run into build issues and quit. Over and over again. So is there any way we > can elevate this issue before we start getting laughed at? Ideally somebody > from Canonical would have a little chat with somebody from Sun and we'd > magically be at a point where the community can maintain the build > process... >
Why would Sun want to do anything about Eclipse? They are doing good job at maintaining their own IDE (netbeans) in Ubuntu. Eclipse has become a mammoth. If any new maintainer tries to touch it, it is going to be pain. We (Ubuntu community) are already short of good java packagers. Of those we have I believe none have any experience with Eclipse packaging. The people who are responsible for Eclipse in Debian are missing in action (from my understanding). I will be happy if proven wrong. So this has really become a deadlock. If canonical does anything about (as in hiring someone for six moths to get the package in good shape), that will be great. Onkar -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
