Eclipse GUI speed issue

[David Sledge]

-----Original Message-----
> It's hard to compare different versions of both the JDK (diablo vs. sun) 
> and Eclipse (3.1.2 vs. 3.2) and call it an OS-related issue.  That said, 
> Eclipse doesn't seem to be well maintained on FreeBSD.  It is kind of 
> annoying that Eclipse decided to hard-wire the OS into the build system, 
> and, of course, they pretended that *BSD didn't exist.

> At the moment this list is dead and Eclipse is not being supported on 
> FreeBSD.  I assume that everyone has other priorities right now, but I'm 
> hopeful that it will get picked up again.  Considering that even my 
> OpenBSD system has a 3.2 port on it, it's hard for me to justify 
> spending more time learning about this codebase to finish updating the 
> port when I could simply move to any other platform for it.

> I am curious, though, as to what happened to the original porter(s) and 
> why they aren't even responding on the list anymore.

> psa


I don't know why this list stopped being used either. All communication for eclipse 3.2 has been taking place on the freebsd-java mailing list. We should probably start using the freebsd-eclipse mailing list though. As far as I can tell the original porter of eclipse 3.1.2 is currently busy and welcomed someone else to use his port as a base to port eclipse 3.2. I found on eclipse's site where he uploaded his patches to be applied to the eclipse stream.  I am not sure why they were not added for the eclipse 3.2 release. When we are finished testing the eclipse 3.2 port which is currently being worked on I will submit the patches to eclipse and see if maybe it can be added to the next release of eclipse. It looks like the CDT plugin for eclipse will need to be updated for eclipse 3.2 and the EPIC plugin maintainer has mentioned that he will update it when the 3.2 port has been tested a little longer. You can find the current eclipse 3.2 port at http://www.freshdevonrails.com/eclipse.shar and you can see the history for it in the archives of the freebsd-java mailing list.