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On Saturday 15 April 2006 09:11 am, Tristan Mills wrote: |
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> Lord Sauron wrote: |
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> > Hi, once again... |
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> > I'm taking a Computer Science class in school, and they use Java for |
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> > this class. I decided to try using Eclipse, a popular Java IDE, |
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> > however, Eclipse appears to be masked (see # emerge --search eclipse |
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> > output below). I don't know what to do. Does anyone have any |
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> > suggestions? |
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> A bit late perhaps, but I (and several colleagues) use Eclipse on Gentoo |
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> every day at work. |
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> We have all found the best solution is to download from the website and |
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> unpack it. The version in portage is very old (the 3.2 milestones are |
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> stable enough for everyday use) and its easier to manage and install |
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> plugins. |
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Yeah, it is really stale. A year ago I was using JCreator with JDK v1.5 |
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I agree totally though: Eclipse looks better than awt or swing (though you can |
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change their look using... I think it was UIStyle or something like that...) |
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> Eclipse is great once you've used it a little (even with our bizarre |
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> homebrew build systems at work) and its windowing toolkit looks far |
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> better than AWT or Swing. |
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All my computers are built by hand by me, so of course they're a interesting |
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mix of ancient tech and the stuff that I can afford ; ) It's fun. |
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