[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

[Radosław Warowny]

I don't think it is good idea of packaging Eclipse as Ubuntu packages at
all. Base Eclipse platform is relatively easy to install - just unpack
it's archive to a directory. There is huge amount of plugins available
but Eclipse provides it's own plugin management system with dependency
resolving, posiibility of install from different repositories over
Internet connection,  from disk after downloading and so on. Packaging
this as .deb packages would be complex, tedious and what is most
important doubling of Eclipse and plugin developers work.

Instead of packaging Eclipse providing comprehensive documentation how
to integrate Eclipse with Ubuntu should be enough. Maybe some
configuration or launcher scripts for Eclipse could be worth of
packaging as a .deb package.

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