[1630] in athena10
Re: Punt eclipse from extra-software?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Fri Mar 13 20:06:01 2009
Cc: debathena@mit.edu
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
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Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:05:01 -0400
Alex and I went back and forth on this - I think we decided to go with
the Ubuntu version and users who wanted a newer one could use the
locker. However, if in fact no one wants the older version, we
should probably just punt it.
-Jon
On Mar 13, 2009, at 8:01 PM, Evan Broder wrote:
> debathena-extra-software currently appears to be the only thing
> pulling
> in eclipse currently, and the version in Ubuntu is exceptionally old
> (dates from 2007; see
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=432350 and
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eclipse/+bug/123064).
>
> I don't use Java or Eclipse, so I have no sense of exactly how crusty
> 3.2 is. Is it crusty enough that we should remove it from extra-
> software
> and just use the locker version until 3.4 makes it into Ubuntu?
>
> Or is there a potential use case for having 3.2 installed locally for
> people who don't want to wait for it to run out of the locker?
>
> - Evan
