eclipse Bugzilla 98443 Help File System broken

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On Sunday 05 June 2005 09:22,  the author bugzilla-daemon at eclipse.org
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broken: 

[Bug 98443] Help file does not function
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https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=98443
------- Additional Comments From dejan at ca.ibm.com  2005-06-05 13:47 -------
FreeBSD is not the supported OS for Eclipse 3.1. 
1  The broken help file bug applies not to just FreeBSD OS but to other OS's. 
Itm seems to be a bug that may have repercussion for any OS.
2. This is meant to be a Java source tree the whole virtue of that is that the 
project should be free of operating system constraints.
3. eclipse is now, according to my understanding, an open source project and 
as such there are no rules such as "FreeBSD is not the supported OS" for an 
open source project. It is either open source - in which case the open source 
community includes all OS's or not. Just because ibm donated the eclipse code 
to the open source, does not in my view, mean that the concerns of other OS 
users can be ethically abandoned.
4. I can ubnderstand someone saying   "I have no personal experience with 
FreeBSD" but the debug information includes java event details which are 
certainly platform independent.
5. Cazn you therefore please comment on what the java event details tell you 
and if there arre some operating system implications then the freebsd ports 
maintainers can look at that side of the issue.
6. Can we please have some fun and co-operation within the open source 
community from which we all benefit and to which we all contribute.
Thanks

David

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