Re: Hacking Classpath in Eclipse

[Thomas Fitzsimmons]

On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 09:05 -0700, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Tom> This is an example of why it would be very useful to make Classpath
> Tom> fully bootstrappable by merging e.g. cp-tools, gjdoc, gij and gcjx into
> Tom> the Classpath repository/build system.  Long term I guess this is where
> Tom> we're headed but this is just another data point that we're going in the
> Tom> right direction.
> 
> For Eclipse-based builds we really don't want all of this; in
> particular we don't want or need a compiler here.  Using the built-in
> Eclipse compiler is superior.
> 
> >> Ideally Eclipse would offer the possibility of auto-exporting the
> >> build results as a .jar.  That would solve this entirely.
> 
> Tom> Yes, I've wanted that in several other situations.  Let's file an
> Tom> enhancement bug with Eclipse.
> 
> Are you filing it?  If so tell me the PR and I will add myself.

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=121901

Tom