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From: Alexander Kabaev <ak03@gte.com>
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On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 15:09:57 +0100
Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch> wrote:

> Hello Achilleus,
> 
> Tuesday, February 17, 2004, 2:58:45 PM, you wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >> I'm considering switching to FreeBSD as desktop (from W2K)and from
> >all I see,> the remaining major issue is that there is no SWT 3.0 for
> >it. I need> Eclipse 3.0 and I also want to use Azureus.
> >> 
> >> So is anyone working on a SWT port? Or am I required to go with
> >Linux> for now?
> 
> > Eclipse 2.1 runs great. (from the ports collection).
> 
> Mhh maybe I look into that as to how they ported SWT 2.X as a base to
> porting SWT 3.X
> 
> > What new features are in 3.0 ?
> 
> 
> Well I haven't actually looked into 2.1 very much but I always want
> the latest and greatest piece of software for my uses. And anyway, I
> really need Azureus ;-) (NFW I'm gonna go back to Python based
> Bittorrent).
> 
I had Eclipse 3.0M6 built manually. You might be able to extract SWT
bits out of that.

http://people.freebsd.org/~kan/eclipse/linux-gtk-x86-sdk.zip

Don't get fooled by the 'linux' in file name, archive contains native
FreeBSD binaries.
-- 
Alexander Kabaev