FYI, we will have a session at UDS on upgrading to Eclipse 3.4/3.5 in Karmic.
On 04/17/2009 08:41 AM, Oli Warner wrote: > Jaunty is shipping Eclipse version 3.2. That's about two years old -- a > massive amount of time -- and since then there have been innumerable > fixes. There has been a bug calling for its upgrade since 3.3 came out > 20-something months ago. That bug has since gone through versions 3.4, > 3.4.1 and now 3.4.2. > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eclipse/+bug/123064 > > If this were an insignificant and very niche tool, but it's not; Eclipse > earns four stars in the popularity contest (only beaten by the Python > runtimes for obvious reasons). > > The community appears to be failing at getting this packaged. People > try, run into build issues and quit. Over and over again. So is there > any way we can elevate this issue before we start getting laughed at? > Ideally somebody from Canonical would have a little chat with somebody > from Sun and we'd magically be at a point where the community can > maintain the build process... > > But really, *anything* is better than the nothing we have at the moment. > -- Robbie Williamson rob...@ubuntu.com Ubuntu Foundations Team Manager robbiew[irc.freenode.net] http://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam +1 512 686 2051 "You can't be lucky all the time, but you can be smart everyday" -Mos Def "Arrogance is thinking you are better than everyone else, while Confidence is knowing no one else is better than you." -Me ;) -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss