Im running skype sucessfully on ubuntu 9,8. Eclipse 3.5 with subversive on suns jdk.
2009/5/30 Dr. Dirk Schnelle-Walka <[email protected]>: > Mike, > >> Are there any developers/committers of this project who are using Linux? >> Particularly Ubuntu? Can you give me a hand? > > Not Ubuntu, but Fedora 10. > >> >> I have been working on VTP since 2005, so far all in Windows, using >> Eclipse 3.0 through 3.4. The part I work on makes telephone calls through >> the Skype client, so it has Java-to-native environment issues, which I >> originally solved in a Windows-only manner, and recently have been working >> to make available also for Linux and OS X. >> >> A team supported by Skype has produced the necessary multiplatform >> interface code and I have been working to integrate that code into the VTP >> code I developed previously. In principle, once that is done, it should work >> on Linux and OS X "magically". I have finished that integration. >> >> Of course, I have to verify that it does work on non-Windows platforms, >> and I am finding the "magic" is wearing off quickly. >> >> I am not at all experienced with Linux. I have quite a bit of experience >> as a Unix user, so I thought it could not be too hard. So, which Linux >> distribution to use? From what I had heard, it sounded as though Ubuntu >> would be one of the smoothest and easiest choices to get Linux up and >> running on my computer -- that seems to be true enough. Setting up my >> machine to dual boot Ubuntu and XP was very easy, and Ubuntu out of the box >> runs very well, but it does not include Skype, or Eclipse, or Sun Java. >> >> The Ubuntu application repositories do make Sun Java and Eclipse available >> as packages to download and install. The Eclipse version is 3.2, and it is >> configured to run on GCJ, not Sun Java. I am trying to figure out if/how >> that matters to what I am doing. >> Eclipse fires up, apparently OK, and the first thing I try to do is to >> install the Subclipse plugin for Subversion from the tigris.org update site, >> where I got it from for Windows. All is apparently well until the Eclipse >> software update tool says it cannot find any features on the tigris.org >> update site. Bummer. I switch back to Windows, find a 3.2 version of >> Eclipse, and repeat the exercise from Windows and it works fine. >> > > I made bad experience with GCJ, so I downloaded the latest SDK and > configured my linux to use that one instead of GCJ. > There are some cases where it does not behave as it should. Fedora also used > GCJ but turned to OpenJDK for the same reason. Using that I do not have any > problems. > > >> Has anyone else gotten Subclipse installed and operating on Linux or >> Ubuntu? > > Yes. No problems with eclipse 3.4 and subclipse, but I have another Java > version. Maybe this is the cause of the misbehaviour that you observed. > >> >> I found a version of Skype client supposedly tailored to Ubuntu, but I >> cannot make calls from it. Seems it may be a mismatch with my headset. >> > > Sorry, I did not test Skype yet. > > ~dirk > _______________________________________________ > vtp-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/vtp-dev > _______________________________________________ vtp-dev mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/vtp-dev
