Hallo! * J�rg Schaible wrote: > Jan Schulz wrote: >> /usr/share/eclipse/links/something.links > this could be extremly helpfull for Gentoo anyway. Myself I have organized > my Eclipse plugins with this links completely, so switching between two > Eclipse builds is quite easy .. just copy the links directory with all the > entries. It would additionally allow the plugins to be installed in package > groups like GEF.
For playing and switching a lot, it *is* a lot of help. With a package manager, which knows of all installed files, thats just somethign 'nice to have'. I'm not sure, how gentoo's Partage system is handling that. >Even more, you can have links to differetn plugin versions > for different Eclipse releases. True. But I don't expect, that one wants to have different versions of a IDE installed (apart from the guys, which get it for fun :). Currently I don't plan to let eclipse3 be installable beside eclipse2.x, apart from the swt part (and that only if there is API breakage, which hasn't happen yet). Anyway, it can become a requirement in the next version, as eclipse introduces the 'Rich Client Platform', which is a set of IDE independend plugins, which cna be used as the underlying engin for any programm. There is curently one open source app for SWT (f which I know), but if this gets the same impact than what happend with eclipse plugins, then we will get a lot more 'RCP based apps' in the future. Jan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
