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  • Re: any efforts to get Eclipse IDE (with CDT) back into Debian?

    From Emmanuel Bourg@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 16 19:10:01 2024
    Hi Philippe,

    Le 16/06/2024 à 04:16, Philippe Cerfon a écrit :

    Since quite some time has passed, I merely wanted to ask whether
    there's been ever any thoughts from the Java Team to get Eclipse IDE
    back into Debian as proper packages?

    The lack of manpower is still an issue. I'm still able to update the
    core Eclipse libraries once or twice a year, but the full IDE would
    require at least a full time maintainer I think.

    Emmanuel Bourg

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  • From Matthias Klose@21:1/5 to Philippe Cerfon on Sat Jun 29 12:00:01 2024
    On 16.06.24 23:21, Philippe Cerfon wrote:
    Hey Emmanuel.

    On Sun, Jun 16, 2024 at 6:54 PM Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org> wrote:
    The lack of manpower is still an issue. I'm still able to update the
    core Eclipse libraries once or twice a year, but the full IDE would
    require at least a full time maintainer I think.

    I see.

    What a pity that none of the big companies using Debian and doing
    development (and thus may benefit from Eclipse, too) or e.g. Canonical
    seems to have an interest in this and being able to sponsor the needed manpower.

    I fail to see the connection between using Debian and using Eclipse.

    Go start packaging yourself, or at least write what would be needed. In
    the past, upstream didn't care much about getting packaging issues
    addressed upstream, and packaging is very time consuming.

    I'm not sure if RedHat is still doing that, but they had one or two full
    time developers doing that.

    Matthias

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