[SUGGEST] Reform eclipse and eclipse related ports

[Panagiotis Astithas]

Vizion wrote:
> On Monday 17 October 2005 15:05,  the author Scot Hetzel contributed to the 
> dialogue on-
>  Re: [SUGGEST] Reform eclipse and eclipse related ports: 
> 
> 
>>On 10/17/05, Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser at sigpipe.cz> wrote:
>>
>>>   Wes said: "I have to resort to 'make search'" which presumably means
>>>   he'd prefer to just ls /usr/ports/$emacs_category; while 'make
>>>   search' is a bearable interface (FMPOV), you can't beat a ls.
>>>
>>>   Hey, what about materialized virtual categories? A bunch of
>>>   symlinks, and everyone's happy. Or is that too much for CVS?
>>
>>It would probably be too much for CVS to handle, instead someone could
>>modify bsd.port.mk to create the virtual category directories and then
>>symbolicly link the ports into these categories.
>>
>>The following could be added to bsd.port.mk
>>
>>virtualport:
>>.for CATEGORY in ${CATEGORIES}
>>.if not exist ${PORTSDIR}/${CATEGORY}
>>   mkdir ${PORTSDIR}/${CATEGORY}
>>.endif
>>.if not exist ${PORTSDIR}/${CATEGORY}/${PORTNAME}
>>  ln -s ${.CURDIR} ${PORTSDIR}/${CATEGORY}/${PORTNAME}
>>.endif
>>.endfor
>>
>>which would add the link for a specific port.  The we would need to
>>add a virtualports target (bsd.subdir.mk?) that would decend thru all
>>the ports creating all the symbolic links (similar to the "make
>>readmes" target used in /usr/ports/ ).
>>
>>Also there would need to be another target that would remove all the
>>symbolic links, that way you could re-create them without worrying
>>about removed symbolic links pointing to non-existant ports.
>>
>>NOTE: Non of this code has been tested. If you want this feature, work
>>on improving the code and submitting it as a patch to the PR database
>>for Ports Managers to accept/reject.
>>
>>Scot
> 
> 
> 
> Would this provide an opportunity to have for example:
> /usr/ports/eclipse 
> /usr/ports/eclipse/plugins/
> 
> so that the plugins could be selected for installation from make  config 
> in /usr/ports and manage the installation of the plugins (rather similar to 
> what happens for php)?

This can be done today, with an eclipse-plugins meta-port, similar to 
the php5-extensions one. I may even find some time to work on it.

Cheers,

Panagiotis