Hi, I've used Eclipse in the past (IDEA for now) and Debian is the best OS for Java development for me :)
The installation is pretty easy, you just have to download the tarball : https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/ You can choose the pre-package according to your language/usage. The update and plugins can be managed directly in the Eclipse menu. You can also configure several JDK for your projects. For me it's not necessary to have a Debian package to use Eclipse. regards, François Papon fpa...@apache.org Le 19/10/2018 à 01:10, Ben Caradoc-Davies a écrit : > On 19/10/2018 03:48, Kent West wrote: >> I do feel a little tainted, going outside of the Debian repositories for >> software. But I understand that in the world of Free Software, >> there's not >> always a volunteer available to maintain a package. > > Fear not. The Eclipse Foundation has fine Open Source credentials. > > I use Debian OpenJDK packages but applications like Eclipse and Maven > I install from tarballs and run with wrapper scripts so I can choose > JDK versions. In the Java ecosystem it seems much more common to > bundle dependencies with applications. This is quite different to the > Debian way of doing things, and untangling these dependencies seems to > have been an insurmountable obstacle to Debian packaging. I am not > saying that it cannot be done, just that the cost is sufficient to > prevent it with the amount of available developer interest. > > I have found Debian to be a good platform for Java development. > > Kind regards, >