On 9/27/10 7:31 AM, Dag Wieers wrote:
On Fri, 24 Sep 2010, Les Mikesell wrote:
On 9/24/2010 2:23 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:
Well yes, it does work OK. The point being though it's an old (stable) release of Eclipse, but nothing near the current Eclipse 3.6.0 Helios release.
I'm in the middle of moving now, but when the dust settles I will put my 'Installing Eclipse Helios 3.6.0 for PHP developers' on Centos 5.5 on my site. It covers Java, Xdebug, PDT, necessary repos, and starting to use the PDT plugin for debugging local and remote PHP scripts. I might even throw in a few screencasts. But that's another story getting OT now.
My take on things is that java and a lot of other things are really intended to work with several versions concurrently available - and perhaps running concurrently, where RPM wants to only have one and even with alternatives can only make one the default. So any time you don't want the defaults, you have some design decisions to make. Still, I'm surprised that Sun and RH didn't make nice and have a publicly available RPM that puts things in RH-style places.
As you probably know, Red Hat does have various java flavours and versions that can coexist using RPM available from their RHN Extras/Supplementary channel. I guess licensing is one reason why it is not public, although it does give Red Hat some added value for Enterprises, I am sure :-)
Yes, but it was odd that Debian/Ubuntu offered packaged Sun Java for everyone where RH only had it in the subscription updates. And even stranger that Sun's own RPM didn't follow RH standards. I suppose they'd rather have you run solaris, but making something difficult isn't the way to get people to like your products.