Re: [linux-distros-dev] Eclipse 3.8-4.6.3

[Roland Grunberg <rgrunber@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 12:45 PM, James Le Cuirot <chewi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm not affiliated with Debian but it's probably because they have
strict rules about building everything from source and I gather that
recent versions of Eclipse are extremely difficult to build from
source.

I would say it's quite tricky to start the process from scratch and

there's a lot of bootstrapping involved. Eclipse needs Tycho

for build-time and yet Tycho needs (some) Eclipse at runtime. I

still see this as a step up from the days of pdebuild, and shell

scripts calling ant scripts calling shell scripts.

In Fedora, for Maven and Tycho, quite a bit of customization was
needed in order to have these tools resolving dependencies directly
from the system as opposed to remotely, and to respect the various
packaging constraints.

Even more work went in over the years to make it easier to package
plugins over and to get to the point that the entire process could be
reproduced onto new architectures with ease.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that if there was enough interest to

package Eclipse, there would certainly be a lot of resources as a

starting point.