Re: [platform-swt-dev] [ANN] Eclipse SWT/Fox plugin available ( pre-alph

["Ivan Markov" <ivan.markov@xxxxxxxxx>]

Okay, my apologies.

Yet, I posted the announcement at 10:16AM E.Europe LT and then complained at
7:56PM E.Europe LT.
That is an interval of 9+ hrs. Longer than a regular work day! :-)

/Ivan

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From: "Steve Northover" <Steve_Northover@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 12:32 AM
Subject: Re: [platform-swt-dev] [ANN] Eclipse SWT/Fox plugin available (
pre-alpha)


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> Ivan, we are maxed out.  Nobody has had the time to look into it.
Besides,
> you posted at 10:11am and then complained about no reply at 12:51.  <g>
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> Hi,
>
> I guess I may become boring by repeating about this SWT/Fox thing, yet I
> would really appreciate *any* comments on this from the OTI developers.
> I know you are not paid to try or to review or to comment on someone
else's
> code and that noone has asked me to do it.
> But isn't there a little bit of curiosity in you? It is so much related to
> your everyday work.
>
> Given that a new port is a huge effort and that SWT (and Eclipse) are
> supposedly open source, I find this silence here a little bit, err,
> hostile.
> Probably it's all some special kind of IBM/OTI-open source but I really
> don't get it.
>
> Regards,
> Ivan
>
> P.S. Sorry if I sound a bit harsh I didn't mean to. :-) Just to push you a
> bit, that's it.
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: Ivan Markov
>  To: platform-swt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
>  Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 10:11 AM
>  Subject: [platform-swt-dev] [ANN] Eclipse SWT/Fox plugin available (
>  pre-alpha)
>
>  (This is posted in the newsgroup as well.)
>  SWT/Fox reached a stage where it can (almost) run Eclipse.
>
>  There are still *lots* of bugs, some of them are serious showstoppers
>  (crashes, focusing problems, redraw problems) that will prevent one from
>  running Eclipse for everyday work. I'll try to fix them ASAP.
>
>  Nevertheless, I welcome everyone willing to try it out, to go to SWT/Fox
>  home page, http://swtfox.sf.net .
>
>  Note that there's a SWT/Fox Plugin Update Site as well, so updating
>  Eclipse to use SWT/Fox shouldn't be a problem. Check the home page for
>  more details.
>
>  There are Fox/Win32 & Fox/Linux/x86 versions of the port uploaded.
>  Note that the Fox/Win32 port is for testing purposes only.
>
>  The real target of the port is Fox + *nix + X11.
>
>  Since SWT/Fox is very unstable and not (yet) appropriate for daily work,
>  please, make a backup of your workspace directory _and_ start with a
clean
>  one before updating Eclipse with the plugin.
>
>  I welcome any volunteer that wants to code/test/give suggestions etc.
>  Probably the most useful thing would be if someone with access to 64b
Unix
>  (Solaris/Sparc, anyone?) steps up and tries to carry out the build
>  procedure on such machine.
>
>  In theory SWT/Fox is 64b clean and it should run anywere Posix + X11 are
>  available.
>
>  P.S. Once you've installed SWT/Fox in Eclipse, you can activate it by
>  runing Eclipse this way: 'eclipse -ws fox'
>
>  P.S. Users of older Linux distributions (pre gcc 3.2) may encounter
>  problems running SWT/Fox, because at the moment it is not statically
>  linked with libc++. (I haven't succeeded yet in convincing Ant/CPPTasks
to
>  link *some* libraries statically.)
>
>  /Ivan
>
>  P.S. Anyone interested?
>
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