Eclipse is stagnating

[Robbie Williamson]

FYI, we will have a session at UDS on upgrading to Eclipse 3.4/3.5 in Karmic.

On 04/17/2009 08:41 AM, Oli Warner wrote:
> Jaunty is shipping Eclipse version 3.2. That's about two years old -- a
> massive amount of time -- and since then there have been innumerable
> fixes. There has been a bug calling for its upgrade since 3.3 came out
> 20-something months ago. That bug has since gone through versions 3.4,
> 3.4.1 and now 3.4.2.
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eclipse/+bug/123064
> 
> If this were an insignificant and very niche tool, but it's not; Eclipse
> earns four stars in the popularity contest (only beaten by the Python
> runtimes for obvious reasons).
> 
> The community appears to be failing at getting this packaged. People
> try, run into build issues and quit. Over and over again. So is there
> any way we can elevate this issue before we start getting laughed at?
> Ideally somebody from Canonical would have a little chat with somebody
> from Sun and we'd magically be at a point where the community can
> maintain the build process...
> 
> But really, *anything* is better than the nothing we have at the moment.
> 


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