Hi Sam, Okay, if I was not clear about what I wanted, I will try to clarify. I personally wanted the "sort of official" Eclipse IDE Gentoo overlay on GitHub to take up my updated EAPI 7 based ebuilds, but the only person I was able to contact refused. I call the repository "sort of official" since it is still on the Gentoo wiki page. [1] I fixed the ebuild so I do not feel like it should be rejected by the developer, but it is what it is. Since this is what the situation is, I feel like the existing "sort of official" Eclipse IDE Gentoo overlay should be forked, and the updated ebuilds should be incorporated. Or, perhaps I can gain access to commit the updates to this repository, but I assume the people listed on the GitHub page probably will not allow that. I hope the explanation I wrote here makes sense. I was not aware of the alternative unofficial repository . I will take a look at it. That being said, the wiki page still has the now broken repository. [2] Something needs to be done to remedy the situation.
Regards, Kevin Brace Brace Computer Laboratory blog https://bracecomputerlab.com [1]: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Eclipse [2]: https://github.com/gentoo/eclipse-overlay > Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2024 at 7:34 PM > From: "Sam James" <s...@gentoo.org> > To: "Kevin Brace" <kevinbr...@gmx.com> > Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Updating community maintained Gentoo Eclipse IDE > repository ebuild to EAPI 7 > > Kevin Brace <kevinbr...@gmx.com> writes: > > > Hi, > Hi, > > > > > I am a first time poster who just subscribed to the gentoo-dev mailing list. > > I installed Eclipse IDE 4.6 to one Gentoo Linux installation using the > > community maintained Eclipse IDE repository ebuild when Portage still > > supported EAPI 6, but the current release of Portage no longer does > > so. > > I have been increasingly annoyed by this community maintained Gentoo > > Eclipse IDE ebuild giving me weird warning type messages when running > > Portage. > > Of course, it does not stop Portage from running, but I do not like it > > aesthetically. > > The cause of the warning messages are that ebuilds are still at EAPI 5 (for > > Eclipse IDE 4.5) and 6 (for Eclipse IDE 4.6), and they need to be updated > > to at least EAPI 7. > > I got so annoyed by this that I decided to take them into my own hands, and > > I managed to update ebuilds in question. > > I got rid of all the annoying messages displayed when running Portage, and > > it appears that Eclipse IDE installs fine. > > So I directly contacted one developer of the three still active on GitHub, > > but he refused to take up the ebuilds and update them. > > He does not seem to want to maintain the repository any longer (he > > appears to be disillusioned with the Eclipse IDE ebuilds they > > developed for some reason), and even suggested that a new community > > repository to be created to replace the now obsolete Eclipse IDE > > repository. > > This one I am talking about. > > > > https://github.com/gentoo/eclipse-overlay > > > > Personally, I really did not want to get involved in this type of OS > > infrastructure project because I work on totally different type of > > code development projects, but I feel like something has to be done to > > update the Eclipse IDE ebuilds to keep up with Portage. > > Let me know what more experienced Gentoo developers think. > > In general, packaging Java is pretty painful and everyone has migrated > to using just prebuilt jars for useful applications (like Eclipse). > > (See > e.g. > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/de...@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/4EHBACT4I263R4QF75HB3DUJWWANGHAS/, > and I think Chewi wrote a similar email at one point.) > > I'm not 100% clear what's being requested here: > * it definitely looks like the eclipse overlay is pretty dead and > should probably be removed from the repository list; > * we can consider requests if someone wants access to it (perhaps you!) > to contribute fixed ebuilds to it, but it might just be better to make > your own repository for that; > * there seem to be some newer ebuilds for eclipse in other repositories, > see e.g. http://gpo.zugaina.org/Search?search=eclipse > > > > > Regards, > > > > Kevin Brace > > Brace Computer Laboratory blog > > https://bracecomputerlab.com > > thanks, > sam > >
