[SUGGEST] Reform eclipse and eclipse related ports
Panagiotis Astithas
past at ebs.gr
Sun Oct 16 03:20:40 PDT 2005
Wes Peters wrote:
>
> On Oct 15, 2005, at 2:39 AM, Panagiotis Astithas wrote:
>
>> Mark Linimon wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 09:15:07PM -0700, Wes Peters wrote:
>>>
>>>> I don't mind moving the eclipse ports from java to devel, but all
>>>> the other eclipse ports are add-ins to eclipse and should probably
>>>> be classified along with eclipse.
>>>>
>>> [adding freebsd-java to the Cc:]
>>> For some background, there's been on-and-off discussion on -java
>>> about how the java category was never really a good idea. None of
>>> the other languages have their own primary category. In particular
>>> we've completely failed to train our users to send 'java' PRs only
>>> for problems with the JVMs and 'ports' PRs for things in ports/java.
>>>
>>>> In particular, if eclipse is a 'devel' tool, I don't see how CDT
>>>> and phpeclipse are editors. GEF isn't a graphics library, it's a
>>>> graphical emulation framework for eclipse, which is (again) a
>>>> development tool.
>>
>>
>> Although I agree with everything you say here, I can't see how this
>> is an argument against the fact that GEF and CDT most probably belong
>> to devel. Unless I'm mistaken and you were not making one?
>
>
> I was making an argument that regardless of where eclipse migrates too,
> all of it's little pieces should go right along with it, rather than
> getting spread all over the ports system.
Since you snipped Mark's reply in your quote, let me clarify that my
comments above were directed to Mark and I agree with your point.
However I'm not sure whether there has to be a strict rule that every
eclipse-foo port should go in the same category. Perhaps the emacs
precedent should be followed. See below.
Norikatsu Shigemura wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 09:14:59 +0900 (JST)
> Norikatsu Shigemura <nork at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>>Hi eclipse and eclipse related ports maintainers and users!
>> Some time ago, someone suggested that eclipse and eclipse
>> related ports should be located on proper categories. I
>> think so. So I suggest following repocopy list. Anyone,
>> do you have any idea?
>
>
> Oops, I missed. Eclipse is very similar to Emacs:
> 1. IDE
> Emacs is a one of IDE(or platform). And anyone doesn't
> think that it is ONLY a elisp interpreter. But it is
> a editor. So I think that it is no problem that Eclipse
> may be categolize to editors.
>
> 2. Extension-able
> Emacs has many extention modules like news reader, language
> support, games, ...
>
> 3. Mode
> Emacs has many mode for descriptions like C, Perl, Java, ...
>
> 4. others
> It must be that there are other similar feature:-).
>
> java/eclipse -> editors/eclipse
> java/eclipse-EPIC -> editors/eclipse-EPIC
> java/eclipse-cdt -> editors/eclipse-cdt
> java/eclipse-checkstyle -> devel/eclipse-checkstyle
> java/eclipse-clay-core -> databases/eclipse-clay-core
> java/eclipse-devel -> editors/eclipse-devel
> java/eclipse-emf -> editors/eclipse-emf
> java/eclipse-examples -> devel/eclipse-examples
> java/eclipse-gef -> editors/eclipse-gef
> java/eclipse-gef-examples -> editors/eclipse-gef-examples
> java/eclipse-langpack -> editors/eclipse-langpack
> java/eclipse-log4e -> editors/eclipse-log4e
> java/eclipse-lomboz -> devel/eclipse-lomboz
> java/eclipse-pmd -> devel/eclipse-pmd
> java/eclipse-quantum -> databases/eclipse-quantum
> java/eclipse-sqlexplorer -> databases/eclipse-sqlexplorer
> java/eclipse-sysdeo-tomcat -> www/eclipse-sysdeo-tomcat
> java/eclipse-uml -> editors/eclipse-uml
> java/eclipse-v4all -> editors/eclipse-v4all
> java/eclipse-vep -> editors/eclipse-vep
> java/eclipse-vep-examples -> editors/eclipse-vep-examples
> java/eclipse-viplugin -> editors/eclipse-viplugin
> java/eclipseme -> devel/eclipseme
> java/phpeclipse -> editors/phpeclipse
This sounds fine, too.
Cheers,
Panagiotis
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