[fedora-arm] Raspberry Pi and Eclipse

[Peter Robinson]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Chris Tyler <chris at tylers.info> wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 17:56 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> On 11/28/2011 04:06 PM, Chris Tyler wrote:
>> > We're working on the Raspberry Pi remix here (it has to be a remix
>> > rather than a spin for now). As I've written on the Raspi forums, anyone
>> > expecting to use Eclipse on a Pi is probably dreaming -- there's just
>> > not enough RAM. The model "B" device has 256M, but the GPU will normally
>> > be allocated 64M, leaving 192M for apps. You can boot in as little as
>> > 11M, but after X and a DE, it doesn't look like there will be enough RAM
>> > to use Eclipse without thrashing.
>>
>> I've been playing with it, and Eclipse works well from remote X (see
>> attached), but not when run on the local display.  Eclipse debugging
>> seems to want about 135M, so it doesn't fit nicely with X.
>
> That's good to hear. Sounds like you need double Pi ... one for Eclipse
> and one for the X server :-)
>
>> Is there an F17 remix on the horizon?
>
> Yes -- a group of students here have been hacking away on various pieces
> over the last semester. I'm moving their stuff to my research group for
> long-term maintenance and we'll push as much of it as appropriate into
> Fedora proper -- there will still be a very few bits with ugly license
> issues or where we need to build or optimize differently and haven't yet
> reconciled with the main Fedora package, but these are rare and should
> diminish over time.

Out of interest is there a wiki page with the details of the forked
packages and what the changes are as well as a repo for the packages?

Peter