Google seems to have gone down. I’ve never known this happen. I wonder how long it will take before it comes back up.
Edit: about 20 minutes. Not that long in the scheme of things but long enough to start wondering how very different my experience of the web would be without the ever-useful search engine.
Eclipse 3.2 is out but I haven’t had much of a chance to look at it yet because I’ve spent the afternoon trying to get it to install.
The GTK focus bug from 3.1 is still present (the problem lies with Debian’s use of version numbers) so you need to download the source, patch it and compile it for your own platform. (Instructions here.)
Compilation proved a little trickier than it was for 3.1. As before you need to edit plugins/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse SWT/gtk/org/eclipse/swt/widgets/Shell.java – feel free to use my patch from the root of your unzipped source:
$ patch -p0 < debGTKBugPatch
I couldn't get the default build to work but finally got things compiling (ignoring literally hundreds of warnings about non-type safe generic code) by editing the build.xml file and changing javacSource and javacTarget to 1.5 (I only have Java 1.5 on my machine: it should be possible to compile at least some of the source using Java 1.4 but I haven't tried it)
<property name="javacSource" value="1.5" />
<property name="javacTarget" value="1.5" />
Finally start the build process and go and do something else for a while (on my ageing P4 1.8 it takes close to 50 minutes to build).
$ export ANT_HOME=/usr/bin/ant
$ export JAVA_HOME=/usr/
$ chmod +x build
$ ./build -os linux -ws gtk -arch x86 -java5home /usr/bin/
The custom built version will be in result/linux-gtk-x86-sdk.tar.gz. Extract it into another directory and run eclipse from there.
These notes explain how I got it to work on my machine. Your setup may differ.