[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2009-02-27 Thread Hew McLachlan
You should ask a person / team before assigning bugs to them. A good general rule is not to assign bugs to anyone but yourself. The Ubuntu Eclipse upgrade has nothing to do with Medibuntu, so I have removed the assign. ** Changed in: eclipse (Ubuntu) Assignee: Medibuntu Packaging Team

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2009-02-27 Thread Tiago Silva
Bloody hell, even my university has Ganymede on the Fedora 7 image. -- Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/123064 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2009-02-27 Thread dobratzp
I found this page about people working to create Ubuntu packages for the current version of eclipse: https://launchpad.net/~eclipsers A collaboration to try to provide an up-to-date eclipse package for Ubuntu (and possibly Debian in general). -- Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2009-02-26 Thread Wes Garner
** Changed in: eclipse (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) = Michael Casadevall (mcasadevall) ** Changed in: eclipse (Ubuntu) Assignee: Michael Casadevall (mcasadevall) = The Medibuntu Bot (medibuntu) ** Changed in: eclipse (Ubuntu) Assignee: The Medibuntu Bot (medibuntu) = Medibuntu

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2009-02-26 Thread Alwin Garside
I just noticed the Assignee changed to the Medibuntu Packaging team... Does that mean Eclipse 3.4.1 is going to be included in Medibuntu? -- Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/123064 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2009-02-26 Thread Wes Garner
I assigned it to Medibuntu Packaging to see if they would include it - up to them to review -- Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/123064 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2009-01-24 Thread Alwin Garside
fwiw, in my PPA I have packages for Eclipse and a bunch of plugins that I built using the release binaries from Eclipse.org: https://launchpad.net/~yogarine/+archive Obviously these packages aren't suitable for inclusion in the Ubuntu repos, but they are stable and usable for everyone that just

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2009-01-23 Thread Mantas Kriaučiūnas
** Also affects: eclipse (Baltix) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/123064 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2009-01-05 Thread Derek
Thanks. Build seems to work nicely. Had to do a complete uninstall of current eclipse first, in order to get it to install. Could have been the couple of addons I'd installed system wide (had to manually remove those anyway). Apart from that, works great. Oh, apart from eclipse w/ full

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-12-19 Thread pkt
As a christmas present, a pre-pre-pre-alpha version of an eclipse 3.4.1 package is now available in my PPA; http://launchpad.net/~pktoss/+archive Details are available in this email to pkg-java- maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-java-

Re: [Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-12-16 Thread Victor Bielawski
On 12/16/08, pkt pkt...@gmail.com wrote: I 'd like to invite all subscribers to this bug to pkg-java- maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org We are trying to start an effort to get eclipse-3.4 and its ilk in shape for debian. From there merging it to ubuntu will be much easier. The big problem

Re: [Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-12-16 Thread pkt
Or, you could continue waiting patiently and (judging from history so far) maybe by 2012, eclipse packages will be in ubuntu Vintage Vinegar or something ;-) In 2012, one can expect Ubuntu Porky Piglet (LTS release) and Queer Quacker (normal release), following the naming policy. It's not

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-12-16 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
No, in 2012 our world-domination plan will be more or less accomplished, thus we will have the Ultimate Ubuntu. Howver, due to releases introduced during the beta upgrades, it will be followed by the Very- last Version, and finally, to fix bug #1, there will be the Wedding with Windows. Then,

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-12-16 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
s/releases/bugs/ ... I am not even able to add some ironic garbage to a bug report it seems ... -- Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/123064 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-12-15 Thread pkt
I 'd like to invite all subscribers to this bug to pkg-java- maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org We are trying to start an effort to get eclipse-3.4 and its ilk in shape for debian. From there merging it to ubuntu will be much easier. The big problem is we don't have anyone working full time on

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-11-26 Thread Joel Parker
Rockwalrus' comment about not being to update plugins using the package manager is incorrect (at least for the latest Eclipse release). I was able to download Ganymede SR1, install it into /opt, run it as a normal user, and update plugins (but not the core Platform). The plugins went into my

Re: [Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-11-26 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 7:23 AM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Olivier Bilodeau wrote: Implementation suggestion: Since menu item comments show in tooltips, I would suggest pointing out that when as root you can/should install plugins. You should never start Eclipse as

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-11-26 Thread Nikolai Prokoschenko
Simos, you are not helping much either. Running applications as root is a no-go, no need to call a man a newbie. Just imaging every user of a thin client doing this -- sudo rights for everyone? No way! There should be a sane solution. Eclipse should fix two things: installing updates to user

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-11-26 Thread Micah Gersten
I sent this by E-Mail, but it didn't show up, so here it is: Olivier Bilodeau wrote: I support Simos' suggestion. I would not normally agree with a workaround like this but since it is a developer package it would be tolerable. I also think current eclipse users would find it pretty

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-11-26 Thread Joel Parker
Nikolai, I'm not understanding. Eclipse (Ganymede) *already* installs updates to user directories (all except for Platform) and prefers those updates to the system ones. There's nothing to be done here, it already works as it should. -- Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-11-26 Thread Nikolai Prokoschenko
@Micah: bad idea, sorry. It is perfectly possible that there is some kind of configuration which is agreed on (this is installed by the admin) and then there might be some differences between developers, i.e. someone wants to have a python plugin, which only s/he needs, someone else prefers a

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-11-26 Thread Nikolai Prokoschenko
@Joel: if this is the case, then there is a lot less to talk about. I'm sorry, I only had packages from PPA to play with, which, as I remember now, do not have Software Updates (not even classic) enabled. Maybe we should re-iterate which plugin installation problems we still have? I've only seen

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-11-26 Thread Hew McLachlan
This bug report is an upgrade request for the Ubuntu repositories. Discussion about alternative methods of upgrade/installation and the workings of eclipse should be taken elsewhere. This is a large bug, and each comment is generating a large amount of bugmail. The upgrade request is already with

Re: [Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-11-26 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Simos Xenitellis wrote: On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 7:23 AM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort You should never start Eclipse as root. Emilio, such a terse statement does not help much. People may read this bug report and then start Eclipse as root because someone pointed it out. So this *does* help them :-)

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-11-25 Thread Sean Hodges
Let's avoid going in circles here: Rockwalrus wrote on 2008-09-17: The new p2 update manager does not work in the PPA version. The classic update manager can be enabled in Preferences under General/Capacities. My suggestion would allow the classic update manager to be used instead of the broken

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-11-25 Thread ghostwriter78
The package should be made for at least one reason, there are dependencies (like java in ubuntu) which are not noted on the eclipse installations page, but required for it to run properly. Also users who are not experts with ubuntu (like me), are glad to have a easy to use package manager. I was

Re: [Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-11-25 Thread Pavel Rojtberg
On 24.11.2008 20:11, Victor Costan wrote: In the interest of having this out quicker, I'd like to highlight that JDT is very easy to install using P2 (Eclipse's new package manager.) So I think the only component that needs to be included in the .deb is the platform, and the nice .xpm icon. As

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-11-25 Thread Rockwalrus
The classic update manager can't be used to update a plugin installed in a global read-only location. It tries to install it to your user plugin location, but when you restart, the global directory overrides the user- specific one. But you can use the update manager to install new plugins. --

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-11-25 Thread Matteo Settenvini
Probably in a perfect world it'd be possible to override the default update manager behaviour to ask it to create a .deb for each plugin to install... would it be feasible to do that? Just an idea, though. -- Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/123064 You received this bug

Re: [Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-11-25 Thread thearthur
It seems to me the .deb should include no plugins, or as close that as possable. and have a plugin manager that hooks into eclipse's plugin manager and causes, perhaps upon first use (ie if no .eclipse dir exists), the main plugins to be installed for that user. This would be able to remain

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-11-25 Thread GSMD
Guys, I don't see what the problem is. Just provide the basic Java version (http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/eclipse-ide-java-developers/ganymedesr1) and make sure there won't be permission problem when installing plugins via eclipse plugin manager itself. This is it. You don't need to

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-11-25 Thread Victor Costan
@Rockwalrus: thanks for the insight! So, suppose the .deb only includes the minimum necessary to install plug-ins (I think that would be the platform install; a bit more than RCP). This base wouldn't be update-able -- updates would install, but wouldn't be picked up by Eclipse. I think that's

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-11-25 Thread Brett Alton
For those of you who say Why does this need to be packaged? Just unzip and run!, I think you're forgetting about package management. To upgrade Eclipse to 3.4.1 would be a nightmare without package management across a school board or business. -- Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-11-25 Thread Sergiy Zuban
Some people use Eclipse for developing in other languages. completely agree with that! I don't need everything related to java development, since i'm using http://www.epic-ide.org/ only. -- Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/123064 You received this bug notification

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-11-25 Thread Simos Xenitellis
How about adding in Applications/Programming two entries for Eclipse 1. Eclipse 2. Eclipse as root (or something like that). The second option would then run gksudo eclipse, and be able to install updates in /usr/lib/eclipse/ -- Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/123064

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-11-25 Thread Mohammad Derakhshani
I am not sure how the current discussion is related to this bug report. In my humble opinion it would be better if we continue discussions which are not directly related to a bug report on http://ubuntuforums.org/ or http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ -- Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-11-25 Thread Olivier Bilodeau
I support Simos' suggestion. I would not normally agree with a workaround like this but since it is a developer package it would be tolerable. I also think current eclipse users would find it pretty intuitive. In the past (when eclipse was part of ubuntu) I always started eclipse as root when I

Re: [Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-11-25 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Olivier Bilodeau wrote: Implementation suggestion: Since menu item comments show in tooltips, I would suggest pointing out that when as root you can/should install plugins. You should never start Eclipse as root. -- Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/123064 You received

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-11-24 Thread Radosław Warowny
I don't think it is good idea of packaging Eclipse as Ubuntu packages at all. Base Eclipse platform is relatively easy to install - just unpack it's archive to a directory. There is huge amount of plugins available but Eclipse provides it's own plugin management system with dependency resolving,

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-11-24 Thread Asa Zernik
Sure, don't package plugins - I agree that Eclipse's plugin manager can handle that itself. BUT - the convenience of a .deb package, which handles JDK and JRT dependencies, puts a launcher in the menu, picks a default directory, and so forth, is something I've gotten used to with Ubuntu. I think

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-11-24 Thread Sean Hodges
And what when a third-party plugin wants to upgrade the JDT? or a similar core plugin that an Eclipse package would need to provide in order to make Eclipse usable out of the box? Eclipse's plugin manager can only handle itself correctly on a single- user system, unless you start making system

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-11-24 Thread Alwin Garside
Actually, when using the dropins directory to install plug-ins manually in a system-wide installation (let's say, you have Eclipse 3.4.1 installed in /usr/lib/eclipse with root permissions, and install jdt and pde in the dropins dir also with root permissions) then afaik those plug-ins installed

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-11-24 Thread Victor Costan
In the interest of having this out quicker, I'd like to highlight that JDT is very easy to install using P2 (Eclipse's new package manager.) So I think the only component that needs to be included in the .deb is the platform, and the nice .xpm icon. As far as I know, the platform isn't update-able

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-11-05 Thread ghostwriter78
I agree that it should be removed, as it is basically useless since most of the new plugins dont support it anymore. The manual installation might be a medium skill task, but it costs a lot of time to find the right steps to do it. I just installed ubuntu 8.10 and forgot what had to be done for

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-11-05 Thread Victor Costan
@Simos Xenitellis: pointing fingers at another group is corporate and not as helpful as real action. Please, at the very least, admit that Eclipse is unmaintained (and nobody is willing to fix it), and remove it from the list of packages. Thanks! -- Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

Re: [Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-11-05 Thread thearthur
who should remove this? On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Victor Costan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: @Simos Xenitellis: pointing fingers at another group is corporate and not as helpful as real action. Please, at the very least, admit that Eclipse is unmaintained (and nobody is willing to fix it),

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-11-05 Thread Simos Xenitellis
@Victor Costan: 'eclipse' 3.2 is part of Debian's universe repository. This means that there is not much that Ubuntu can do to remove from the list, because that list is Debian's. You may contact Debian for this issue. Being practical, my view is that what's missing is helping hands in packaging

Re: [Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-11-05 Thread V. Bielawski
@Victor Costan: 'eclipse' 3.2 is part of Debian's universe repository. s/universe/main There is no universe repo in Debian, just main, non-free, and contrib. -- Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/123064 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-11-04 Thread ghostwriter78
Hi Everybody, i just installed ubuntu 8.10 in hope to get some newer repositories with eclipse 3.4 The whole thing is still on 3.2 and it prevents me from installing CDT 5.0.1 can anybody help and provide a package? for both? for the ones of us who are not masters on doing it all from source.

Re: [Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-11-04 Thread Mike Rooney
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 11:47 AM, ghostwriter78 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can anybody help and provide a package? for both? for the ones of us who are not masters on doing it all from source. or can somebody please update the community repository. There is no need to compile anything, just go

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-11-04 Thread Derek
He means, of course, for those who aren't masters of ubuntu package creation. Yes, we can use the official release from eclipse.org - but then why use a package manager. We all know the advantages of package managers in terms of security, integration with rest of system, file organisation,

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-11-04 Thread Simos Xenitellis
In practical terms, the packaging work for Eclipse 3.4 takes place at the Debian project and at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=432350 Ask politely the previous Debian developer on this, or use your contacts with other Debian developers to get it done. For now, Eclipse 3.4

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-10-17 Thread Adam Dorsey
Jisakiel: I was having the same issue. Ensure that eclipse-cvs is installed. Perhaps the control file should be modified so that eclipse depends on eclipse-cvs... -- Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/123064 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-10-10 Thread Marcos Hack
+1 for upgrading -- Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/123064 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-10-10 Thread Hew McLachlan
Please do not keep posting +1 comments, it only creates extra bugmail and does not have any constructive purpose. If you wish to monitor the progress of this bug then the best action is to subscribe. This bug is already confirmed, it just needs someone to package the new version, either here or in

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-10-07 Thread Arnaud Blouin
+1 for upgrading to Eclipse 3.4. -- Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/123064 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-10-01 Thread Andreas Schildbach
** Description changed: Binary package hint: eclipse - Eclipse 3.4.1 is now out - maybe we could see this in the Intrepid rc? + Eclipse 3.4.1 is now out - maybe we could see this in Jaunty? - [was: Eclipse 3.3/3.4 is out, maybe we could see this in Gutsy?] + [was: Eclipse 3.3/3.4 is out,

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-09-30 Thread LumpyCustard
** Summary changed: - Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4 + Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1 ** Description changed: Binary package hint: eclipse - Eclipse 3.4 will be out in near future - maybe we could see this in - Intrepid? + Eclipse 3.4.1 is now out - maybe we could see this in the Intrepid rc? - [was: