[Fedora-packaging] Eclipse PTP build/packaging issue

[Orion Poplawski]

I'm currently the packager for eclipse-ptp.  It has a feature that allows for 
remote development.  Some aspects of this (of which I don't quite understand 
all of it) require shipping a bundle of eclipse platform jars and stuff over 
to the remote system to run there.  The way this is built currently is the 
build downloads the prebuilt eclipse code for various platforms to build into 
the bundle (since the remote system might be anything).  Obviously this 
doesn't fly with Fedora.

I starting looking at perhaps grabbing the built code we already have, but two 
issues:
- I never quite got this working
- It would only have support for the particular platform that the rpm was 
built on.

For now I've disabled this feature (and it has been disabled for the life of 
the package in Fedora).  But I'm wondering if there is any possibility of 
getting this to work somehow in Fedora.  Thoughts?

I've posted to both the packaging list and the java list in the hopes of 
getting the different perspectives.

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Orion Poplawski
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