On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 12:45 PM, James Le Cuirot <ch...@aura-online.co.uk> wrote:
> I'm not affiliated with Debian but it's probably because they have > strict rules about building everything from source and I gather that > recent versions of Eclipse are extremely difficult to build from > source. I would say it's quite tricky to start the process from scratch and there's a lot of bootstrapping involved. Eclipse needs Tycho for build-time and yet Tycho needs (some) Eclipse at runtime. I still see this as a step up from the days of pdebuild, and shell scripts calling ant scripts calling shell scripts. In Fedora, for Maven and Tycho, quite a bit of customization was needed in order to have these tools resolving dependencies directly from the system as opposed to remotely, and to respect the various packaging constraints. Even more work went in over the years to make it easier to package plugins over and to get to the point that the entire process could be reproduced onto new architectures with ease. I guess what I'm trying to say is that if there was enough interest to package Eclipse, there would certainly be a lot of resources as a starting point.
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