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Date:      Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:21:35 -0400
From:      "Stephane E. Potvin" <sepotvin@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-eclipse@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Eclipse Ganymede port
Message-ID:  <489772DF.7040501@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <48973E35.1090108@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <48973E35.1090108@FreeBSD.org>

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Stephane E. Potvin wrote:
| Hi,
|
| A port of Eclipse Ganymede can be found at the following location:
|
|     http://people.freebsd.org/~sepotvin/eclipse-ganymede.tbz
|
| The port should be working for both x86 and amd64 platforms. Just untar
| the file into "${PORTSDIR}/java". It will create an "eclipse-ganymede"
| directory. The port can cohabit with eclipse and eclipse-devel.
|
| I've modified a few of the original patches in order to make them (I
| hope) more easily acceptable upstream in case someone wants to try to
| have them integrated into the main Eclipse project.
|
| There's a few rough edges in the way I handled the building of the
| native libraries and I might fix this up in the future if I ever get
| some more free time to work on this. But, I would not be unhappy to have
| someone else fix it.
|
| gpatch is needed to handle some of the patches as the line length is
| greater than 4096 characters (the upper limit for the patch in the base
| system).
|
| firefox is now working as the embedded browser. I've not tested with
| xulrunner or any other one but I've left them there if somebody wants to
| give it a try. I've not tested disabling the other various knobs either
| so some work might be needed in this area if someone really needs it.
|
| The ports requires Java 1.6 and I've not made any effort to implement
| the support for Java 1.5. It's probably not hard to add it back if it's
| deemed really necessary.
|
| Don't hesitate to ping me if anything is not working properly.
|

Replying to myself, I forgot to mention that Equinox p2 is not working
yet at this time. If anybody wants to jump in and help out find why I'd
be very grateful.

Steph
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