suggestion: move all java packages to extras

Andrew Overholt overholt at redhat.com
Mon Nov 28 15:58:18 UTC 2005


* Konstantin Ryabitsev <icon at fedoraproject.org> [2005-11-26 11:19]:
> On Sat, 2005-26-11 at 10:57 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> 
> [...] you a) can't easily install any of the third-package plugins that
> aren't already packaged into RPMs,

See https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=90630
Tom Tromey already mentioned the library issue that has been fixed.

> b) can't update the plugins that come from RPMs

Again, see https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=90630 .  There are
many things to consider here and if you have input, it would be great if
you could comment on that bug.

> so you're stuck with old versions (e.g. a rather dated version of PyDev).

We can't include newer version of PyDev because they depend upon 1.5-level
stuff that we can't build.  Before someone says "use retroweaver", we have
to be able to build the code before we can munge the bytecode so if ecj +
Classpath (ecj may be 1.5-level compatible but if Classpath is missing
something) can't built it to begin with, we can't ship it.

> So, unless you write lots of stuff in gcj-java, Eclipse as provided by
> Fedora would be of limited use.

I don't see how you come to this conclusion.

Andrew




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