eclipse3 RC2 port

Panagiotis Astithas past at noc.ntua.gr
Wed Jun 16 11:34:48 GMT 2004


Bryan Liesner wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Greg Lewis wrote:
> 
>> for the port (I haven't looked at it yet :().  It sounds like it should
>> at least include libgnome, libgnomeui and gnomevfs2.  I'm guessing that
>> gtk is likely too.  So maybe:
>>
>> USE_GNOME=    gtk20 gnomevfs2 libgnome libgnomeui
>>
>> I think - I'm not that familiar with the gnome stuff.
>>
>>> Is there a chance a ctwm/mwm user can get this running without
>>> installing gobs and gobs of gnome files that they'll probably never use?
>>
>>
>> Its sounding unlikely :(.
> 
> 
> Bummer.  Eclipse 2, if I recall correctly, could use Motif or GTK. Did 
> the Eclipse folks snip out the Motif stuff from 3? I know it would 
> probably be a lot of work, but it would be nice to have a choice of 
> widget kits.  The minimalist in me is screaming right now :)

It doesn't seem to be that hard. I may be able to invest some time on a 
Motif version. The infrastructure seems to be quite in place already.

Cheers,
-- 
Panagiotis Astithas
Electrical & Computer Engineer, PhD
Network Management Center
National Technical University of Athens, Greece


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