Re: [Subclipse-dev] Fedora packaging (was: [fedora-java] Re: Eclipse 3.4)

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Robert Marcano <robert_at_marcanoonline.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 23:37 +0000, Mark Phippard wrote:
>> Robert Marcano <robert@...> writes:
>>
>> > ooop my mistake , subclipse is at 1.4.3 and I have packaged 1.2.4, the
>> > last time I checked it was at 1.4.2, (and 1.2.4 != 1.4.2 I need glasses)
>>
>> 1.4.2 is the current "release". 1.4.3 will be out fairly soon though.
>>
>> The architecture has changed quite a bit with 1.4.x. Email us at
>> dev_at_subclipse.tigris.org if you have troubles packaging it. In theory the
>> changes should give quite a lot of new flexibility.
>>
>> Mark
>
> Hello everyone, I noticed a few things:
>
> 1. SVNKit now uses JNA, not sure for what yet, I thought SVNKit was
> a pure Java implementation of SVN with no native hooks, anyways
> JNA is already packaged in Fedora

You'd have to ask support_at_svnkit.com. I think they are using it for
certain things like symlink manipulation that cannot be done from
Java.

> 2. SVNKit now provides an eclipse plugin (used by subclipse instead
> of the plain jar)

Right.

> 3. SVNKit embeds javahl sources, I will remove it from SVNKit jar
> and add javahl.jar symlink to the SVNKit eclipse plugin because
> Fedora already have it,

If it works, sure.

> 4. No more book plugin :-(

There is nothing to stop you from providing it. It was never updated
after the book 1.0 release anyway.

> 5. More plugins with better separation
> 6. Requires Subversion 1.5 so this will be Fedora 10 only

Yes and yes.

-- 
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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