Re: [gentoo-user] using eclipse with java

On Thu, Apr 17 2014, Jc García wrote:

> 2014-04-17 11:15 GMT-06:00  <gottlieb@×××.edu>:
>> On Thu, Apr 17 2014, Jc García wrote:
>>
>>> 2014-04-17 10:11 GMT-06:00  <gottlieb@×××.edu>:
>
>> Thank you; that does seem preferable.  Is the binary you refer to the
>> one in the following message from emerge (I did a --pretend)?
>>
>> # A more recent source build maintained by the community is available in the
>> # seden overlay. A more recent binary is available in the java-overlay.
>>
>> thanks again,
>> allan
>>
> No, I was referring to the tarball directly downloaded from
> eclipse.org and uncompressed in an arbitrary directory(It worked
> alright for me that way).
>
> I hadn't checked out the java overlay for a while, back when I was
> settiig up my machine for java,  I remember the binary ebuild there,
> wasn't compatible with eclim(this was very important for me), but I
> think the most recent one is, although is not the newest eclipse
> version.

I have now read some more and am questioning if this is worth it.
I don't plan on using eclipse for any real java programming, just to
teach java and eclipse.  Perhaps I will just live with the eclipse
editor for that.  There are faculty at nyu who use it and would be
helpful.

But I still have to get some eclipse.  I have 4 choices

1.  Install eclipse-sdk from the main tree.

2.  Install a source build from the seden overlay.

3.  Install a binary build from the java overlay.

4.  Install a binary build from eclipse.org.

Choice 1 is the easiest (add entry in package.unmask) but I hate using
masked packages.

I prefer source to binary and ebuilds to binary tars so I am planning to
try 2, if that fails then 3, if that fails then 4.

Does this sound reasonable?

allan