Comments on: Patching Eclipse 3.2 for Debian 3.1

by: Tim Hardy

Wed, 09 Aug 2006 15:21:39 +0000

Glad to hear it Bruno. Thanks for the feedback.

by: Bruno

Wed, 09 Aug 2006 15:10:25 +0000

thanks a lot. it works perfectly.

by: Tim Hardy

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:38:13 +0000

Cheers for that Andrew!

by: Andrew

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:25:42 +0000

The eclipse 3.1 packages in Debian Etch (and I think Ubuntu Dapper) are available as GCJ native compiled GCJ packages on at least i386. Install the eclipse-foo-gcj packages.

I believe 3.2 packages are currently being worked on.

by: Tim Hardy

Mon, 03 Jul 2006 12:09:01 +0000

Thanks for the comments, Marc. I only discovered Eclipse recently since I started studying Java and haven’t explored CDT yet. But if you’re anything like most Emacs users, I suspect that however good the latest CDT version is, it won’t lure you away

That’s an interesting idea of native-compiling with GCJ. As far as I know, such a package doesn’t exist yet. SWT’s use of the native graphics already makes Eclipse very responsive for a Java app; this would only make it faster still. I doubt I’ll have much time to experiment myself but perhaps someone else reading this will step up to the plate?

by: Marc

Sun, 02 Jul 2006 15:17:25 +0000

Interesting, I’d like to check out Callisto and see if the CDT has improved since the last time I looked at it.

Building Eclipse has always been a pain in the past and I have never quite gotten into Eclipse enough for it to lure me away from Emacs, so I’d hate to burn a lot of time on this.

I’d love to see an Ubuntu package of Callisto native-compiled with GCJ. I don’t suppose such a beast exists yet?