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Re: No Java in Eclipse Preferences

From	Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz>
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Subject	Re: No Java in Eclipse Preferences
Date	2018-10-18 23:20 +0200
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On 19/10/2018 03:48, Kent West wrote:
> I do feel a little tainted, going outside of the Debian repositories for
> software. But I understand that in the world of Free Software, there's not
> always a volunteer available to maintain a package.

Fear not. The Eclipse Foundation has fine Open Source credentials.

I use Debian OpenJDK packages but applications like Eclipse and Maven I 
install from tarballs and run with wrapper scripts so I can choose JDK 
versions. In the Java ecosystem it seems much more common to bundle 
dependencies with applications. This is quite different to the Debian 
way of doing things, and untangling these dependencies seems to have 
been an insurmountable obstacle to Debian packaging. I am not saying 
that it cannot be done, just that the cost is sufficient to prevent it 
with the amount of available developer interest.

I have found Debian to be a good platform for Java development.

Kind regards,

-- 
Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz>
Director
Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/>
New Zealand

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Re: No Java in Eclipse Preferences Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-10-18 04:40 +0200
  Re: No Java in Eclipse Preferences Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2018-10-18 17:00 +0200
    Re: No Java in Eclipse Preferences Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-10-18 17:10 +0200
    Re: No Java in Eclipse Preferences Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2018-10-18 23:20 +0200

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