Since ubuntu is pushing python, a good python IDE should be available

[Jeff Waugh]

On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 04:11 -0200, Fábio Mendes wrote:
> The hard part here would be convince sun that we can distribute the
> Java machine. Packing a eclipse plugin is easy since all is needed is
> copy the right files to eclipse dir.

Red Hat is shipping Eclipse built with gcj. Ideally, that's what we'd do
too. I don't know what the status is with regards to Eclipse in Debian.
There aren't any packages in sid, that's for sure. :-)

> Has anyone at Canonical tried to contact them regarding this issue
> (maybe an open letter to sun)?

Not so far, but we'll most likely look into distribution of the Sun and
IBM JVMs.

- Jeff

-- 
Ooh, ooh, ooh!             http://www.ubuntulinux.org/           Ubuntu!