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This is really only tangentially-related, but on the subject of removing architecture support, can I point out how annoying it is that Eclipse 4 does not target
by leggomylibro 9y ago
This is really only tangentially-related, but on the subject of removing architecture support, can I point out how annoying it is that Eclipse 4 does not target ARM architectures?
Look at this: http://archive.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/R-4.6-201606061100/ http://archive.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/R-4.6-20...
Linux (x86/GTK+)
Linux (x86_64/GTK+)
Linux (PPC/GTK+)
Linux (PPC64/GTK+)
Linux (s390x/GTK+)
Linux (s390/GTK+)
Linux (PPC64LE/GTK+)
And yet no ARM...I'll bet more people use that than s390.
- rwmj 9y agoIs Eclipse still written in Java? I wonder why architecture support has to be added at all.
- rhencke 9y agoThere very may well be other reasons, but a large one is that Eclipse is written using SWT, not AWT/Swing. SWT is Java, and has a platform-independent API, but has platform-specific implementations. (SWT JARs are unique per OS/architecture)
- leggomylibro 9y agoI actually tried to build it from source. Oh, god. What a monstrosity of a build system. And the documentation (or lack thereof)...here there be tygers.
- andrewf 9y agoIBM is almost certainly committing dollars or people to make that s390 (and PPC64) support happen.