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As far as I can tell, there are no ebuilds for IBM/Eclipse's SWT |
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cross-platform widget toolkit. |
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That could well be because it's a fairly central part of an Eclipse |
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installation (Eclipse itself is a large SWT app) - but neither the |
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eclipse ebuilds, nor manually downloading eclipse (a 3.0 milestone |
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build, perhaps) result in the various SWT jars and .so s ending up |
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anywhere terribly useful or easy to access. |
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My question: should I set about writing an ebuild to package up SWT as a |
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separately installable library? |
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One app that I can think of off hand, iRATE could and would use a system |
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installed libswt. [For that matter, iRATE (http://irate.sourceforge.net |
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as referenced by the GCJ project from http://gcc.gnu.org/java/done.html |
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could use an ebuild as well. If you want, I'll take a stab at that as |
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well] |
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I've read the opinions about Java ebuilds containing only binary JARs |
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being a Bad Thing (tm) and agree, so if I do go ahead and do something |
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like this, I'll see what I can to do figure out how to build it from |
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source. |
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AfC |
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Sydney |
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Andrew Frederick Cowie |
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