ports/133457: [PATCH] java/eclipse-webtools: update to 3.0.3

[Heiner Strauß]

Am Montag, den 29.06.2009, 18:46 -0500 schrieb Rick C. Petty:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:42:23PM +0200, Heiner Strauß wrote:
> > Am Montag, den 29.06.2009, 07:00 +0000 schrieb Gerhard Schmidt:
> > > 
> > >  Updates via eclipse updater are per user updates (stored in homedir of th=
> > >  e
> > >  User). The port is per Computer (stored in /usr/local). I maintain some
> > >  Workstations with 200+ users.
> > >  
> > >  Please keep the Port.
> > 
> > That's a point. But someone has to keep them in sync with eclipse,
> > testing and committing etc. If they are kept like now, they are adding
> > more confusion and no help I think. It took me hours to find out what
> > was wrong with them and how to fix :) Drop them or maintain. The actual
> > webtools are 3.0.4 already. Maybe for bigger installs we could have an
> > eclipse-plugin-mirror port or something, if you want a server centric
> > install.
> 
> I disagree with the OP.  You can drop the user-installed plugins directly
> into /usr/local/eclipse/ with a modicum of effort.  You can network mount
> that directory to avoid updating every machine too.  In fact you can even
> have multiple versions of eclipse installed and run side-by-side with a
> little effort.  I've played with modifications to my /usr/local/bin/eclipse
> script to do just that.
> 
> There's absolutely no reason we should have any eclipse-* ports since every
> one of them is obtainable through eclipse's plugin architecture and
> software updates screens.  It's especially painful if there are multiple
> supported eclipse versions in the ports tree.  I hope that the OP's not
> suggesting that we create thousands of ports, one for each of Eclipse's
> 1200+ plugins times each version of Eclipse.  Even if he were to volunteer
> to be the maintainer for each, it seems silly to have the plugins as ports.
> Although there is some precedence with p5-* ports (instead of using CPAN
> exclusively).
> 
> In fact I've had troubles with many of the fbsd ports but all of them seem
> to behave when I grab them with Eclipse's updater.
> 
> -- Rick C. Petty

Can't we mark the eclipse-* ports at least as DEPRECATED ? They are
confusing new Eclipse users and wasting a lot of time. Most of them
haven't got a maintainer and are hopelessly outdated.

Greetings,
Heiner