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

[Matthias Klose]

Am Samstag, den 06.11.2004, 17:25 +1100 schrieb 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. :-)

that's Eclipse 2.1? Eclipse 3.0 is a work of progress, compiled with the
gcj from the GCC BC branch.

> > 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.

Do we consider distributing the Blackdown packages as well? Please
contact Juergen Kreileder <jk at blackdown.de> for distribution terms. I
put (not yet released) 1.4.2 packages on chinstrap:~doko/j2se/ for amd64
and i386.

	Matthias