[eclipse-maintainers] Initial project questions

[Joerg Wendland]

Hi all,
I am finally back to my Debian work.

Barry Hawkins, on 2005-01-05, 12:37, you wrote:
> 1.) Were we set up as a Subersion project?  Our project home page[0]
> shows us as having a CVS repository.

I'll request a repo at svn.debian.org.

> 3.) Our activity is very closely related to the projects under the
> Debian Java Packaging Project[1].  Since we, too, are packaging upstream
> source, should we be a part of that project?  Or does the considerable
> size of the packaging effort warrant our being a separate project?  The
> latter would seem to be true.

I can't see any advantages or disadvantages in doing it either way.

Besides that, here are some points I'd like to hear your opinion about:

 - Do we need to maintain eclipse 2? There are still many commercial
   tools based on it.
 - Should we support packaged plugins? I think yes, but then how do we
   handle plugins installed as Debian package? Should we disable their
   updating through the update manager?
 - Should we support multiple installed versions? One may want to have
   both eclipse 3 and 3.1 installed.
 - Should we build one big package or some small ones divided up by
   functionality and usefulness as standalone packages: 
   o swt (which is already packaged)
   o rcp (which one may want to use for applications)
   o pde
   o jdt (tomcat5 can use the jdt compiler for jsps)

Cheers,
  Joerg

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