[Mageia-dev] Java-Policy first draft published

Thu Jan 13 22:10:47 CET 2011

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Frank Griffin <ftg at roadrunner.com> wrote:
+
+>  Daniel Kreuter wrote:
+>
+>
+> I don't agree with you at that point. I always take the tarball from
+> eclipse.org (for eclipse) or netbeans.org (for netbeans) instead of the
+> one's of repository provided by the distro.
+> The reason is quite simple, the one's mentioned above are newer than the
+> one's in the repos (often, not always but everywhere i looked for it, it was
+> so)
+>
+> But there may be people who will first look in rpmdrake or urpmi that's
+> right, but not everybody.
+>
+>
+> Well, I didn't say *everybody*, I was referring to newer users who might
+> actually do what we tell them to :-)
+>
+> The problem is that there is a very high probability that anyone who
+> installs from an RPM will then install plugins directly.  Given that, I
+> would question even packaging the base product as an RPM.
+>
+> I agree with you. I think it's better to build just the basic ide with it's
+plugins and let the user install the rest via the Eclipse Marketplace (like
+Subclipse e.g.).
+But we should consider that some of the plugins will have dependencies which
+won't be installed via the Marketplace like javaHL which is needed by
+Subclipse.
+
+-- 
+Mit freundlichen Grüßen
+
+Greetings
+
+Daniel Kreuter
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