How should eclipse be organized in the ports tree?

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On Wednesday 31 August 2005 13:40,  the author Mark Linimon contributed to the 
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 Re: How should eclipse be organized in the ports tree?: 

>> >First of all, a plugin's jar file is essentially its distfile, currently
>> >downloaded by the ports system in ports/distfiles or its subdirectories.
>> >Storing it in the ports CVS repository (in ports/eclipse/plugins), as
>> >you seem to imply, would in some cases be problematic because of
>> >licensing/redistribution issues (not to mention bloat).
>
>OK, I missed this part the first time around.  I thought that you
>were talking about having a way to _fetch_ all the jarfiles in the
>subport -- not the jarfiles themselves.

I shortcircuited that one - I was thinking of a *.jar file (call this a 
*collect.jar )to load the correct plugineclipse jar file which presumably 
would then be ports/distfiles
>
>The problem is that the jarfiles are large, and everyone who has a
>copy of the ports collection would have to have them -- even people
>who do not use eclipse.  There is also the fact that, being binaries,
>every time they change they would essentially be a complete new copy
>in the CVS repository.

Agreed that would be far too messy
>
>We currently do not have many (any?) binaries in the CVS repository
>and it probably ought to stay that way.  CVS is much more efficient
>for text files.
>
>I would instead rather see a port that, when you update it, goes
>though the latest list of jarfiles and fetches them into a single
>subdirectory of ports/distfiles (e.g. ports/distfiles/eclipse-plugins/).


Yep that would work

>That unifies the search function without penalizing anyone who does not
>wish to install the eclipse ports.  This also disentangles us from
>licensing problems.

makes sense
the key to doing it this way is to get what I have called *collect.jar files 
in a single directory in the ports tree!
>
>mcl

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