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why is eclipse so many version behind the current version? I do not think it would hurt to update a little faster.
by kenniskrag 6y ago
why is eclipse so many version behind the current version? I do not think it would hurt to update a little faster.
- vore 6y agoIf there's no people volunteering to update it, then there's nobody to update it a little faster.
- qpiox 6y agoWhy would you need a package for Eclipse. Download it is a ZIP, extract it in the location of your choice and run it from there. (Portable app) I have been using it like that almost every day for 15 years now.
- rjsw 6y agoEclipse isn't portable, somebody has to compile it for Linux, it just comes down to whether you want that done by the Eclipse Foundation or Debian people.
- qpiox 6y agoThe discussion here was about why a debian package for Eclipse is not up to date. My theory is that it is obviously because there is a way how to run Eclipse, without any issues and without the need of an officially tested debian package, so there is not huge demand.
- rjsw 6y agoThat would be fine if Linux preserved backwards compatibility, the glibc version change last year meant that some binary packages no longer run. Something like Netbeans doesn't need a debian package but Eclipse is split into lots of jar files that each depends on some shared libraries.
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y agoOkay, so why don't you volunteer to update it?
- pabs3 6y agoExclipse got removed from Debian because it became too hard to package.