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Date:      Thu, 20 Oct 2005 09:08:15 -0700
From:      Vizion <vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com>
To:        freebsd-java@freebsd.org
Cc:        Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, wes@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-eclipse@FreeBSD.org, mitsuru@riken.jp, tux@pinguru.net, Norikatsu Shigemura <nork@FreeBSD.org>, rtdean@cytherianage.net, sugimura@jp.FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, Ian G <iang@iang.org>
Subject:   Re: [SUGGEST] Reform eclipse and eclipse related ports
Message-ID:  <200510200908.24006.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <43539EB0.5010005@iang.org>
References:  <200510150015.j9F0ExKr085847@sakura.ninth-nine.com> <1B8112AF-8C0E-4BA0-8D1C-DA6AD529F327@softweyr.com> <43539EB0.5010005@iang.org>

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On Monday 17 October 2005 05:53,  the author Ian G contributed to the dialogue 
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 Re: [SUGGEST] Reform eclipse and eclipse related ports: 

>(To all)
>
>Wes Peters wrote:
>> That's exactly the point I was (and am) trying to argue against.  I
>> have to resort to 'make search' to find emacs tools these days  because
>> they've been thrown all over the ports system by well-meaning  but
>> misguided contributors, and I'd hate to see that happen to  eclipse
>> tools too.
>
>As the directory structure imposes Big->Small naming
>on the ports, and this is always going to be inadequate.
>Many ports will have multiple namings and multiple
>ways of indexing that make lots of sense.  The directory
>structure gives one indexing and one name only though.
>
>The problem is not where Eclipse or a plugin is located,
>rather, it is that the directory structure cannot support
>anything more complex than the simplest naming schemes.

So what could be more simple than /usr/ports/eclipse?

>
>Moving Eclipse does not change this, only improving
>the search tools can help here.  So what is needed
>is something that deals with:
>
>    searchports eclipse plugin python
>
>or somesuch.
>
>iang
>
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