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 :-) -- -- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]