Eclipse 3.4.2 update

[Stephane E. Potvin]

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Stephane E. Potvin wrote:
> Here's the long overdue update from eclipse 3.4.1 to 3.4.2. There's a
> lot of improvements bundled with the update in the way that the eclipse
> platform is built on FreeBSD.
> 
> - We are now installing a real eclipse product.
> - Only the jar files for the platform are built, dramatically reducing
> the time necessary to build (thanks to the Fedora devs for the idea and
> the basic procedure).
> - Lot of small fixes to the build procedure to make future imports easier
> - Some of the bundles are pre-extracted during install to improve
> launching time.
> - jdk1.6 is required to build but any jre (1.5 or 1.6) can be used in
> Preferences->Java->Installed JREs. Java 1.4 is unfortunately not
> supported at this time.
> - Switch to x86_64 architecture name instead of amd64 to be more in-line
> with mainline eclipse.
> 
> The bad news is that after this update, all the plugins installed as a
> user with the Update Manager will have to be reinstalled. The location
> of the eclipse metadata has moved to be more in-line with what's used on
> other OSes (like linux). Future updates to 3.4.x should not require
> reinstalling plugins, simply running the 'setup-user' target should be
> sufficient.
> 
> If I get enough positive feedback, I'll ask that it get committed after
> the freeze for 7.2 is over.
> 
> The update can be found there:
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~sepotvin/eclipse-342-rc1.diff
> 

I forgot to mention that libxul is not supported as Gecko provider and
is the new default. I've only tested with it and firefox, though I
expect the other options to work correctly.

Steph
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