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Re: [vtp-dev] Seeking advice and/or information from Linux users
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Mike,
Are there any developers/committers of this project who are using
Linux? Particularly Ubuntu? Can you give me a hand?
Not Ubuntu, but Fedora 10.
I have been working on VTP since 2005, so far all in Windows, using
Eclipse 3.0 through 3.4. The part I work on makes telephone calls
through the Skype client, so it has Java-to-native environment issues,
which I originally solved in a Windows-only manner, and recently have
been working to make available also for Linux and OS X.
A team supported by Skype has produced the necessary multiplatform
interface code and I have been working to integrate that code into the
VTP code I developed previously. In principle, once that is done, it
should work on Linux and OS X "magically". I have finished that
integration.
Of course, I have to verify that it does work on non-Windows
platforms, and I am finding the "magic" is wearing off quickly.
I am not at all experienced with Linux. I have quite a bit of
experience as a Unix user, so I thought it could not be too hard. So,
which Linux distribution to use? From what I had heard, it sounded as
though Ubuntu would be one of the smoothest and easiest choices to get
Linux up and running on my computer -- that seems to be true enough.
Setting up my machine to dual boot Ubuntu and XP was very easy, and
Ubuntu out of the box runs very well, but it does not include Skype,
or Eclipse, or Sun Java.
The Ubuntu application repositories do make Sun Java and Eclipse
available as packages to download and install. The Eclipse version is
3.2, and it is configured to run on GCJ, not Sun Java. I am trying to
figure out if/how that matters to what I am doing.
Eclipse fires up, apparently OK, and the first thing I try to do is to
install the Subclipse plugin for Subversion from the tigris.org update
site, where I got it from for Windows. All is apparently well until
the Eclipse software update tool says it cannot find any features on
the tigris.org update site. Bummer. I switch back to Windows, find a
3.2 version of Eclipse, and repeat the exercise from Windows and it
works fine.
I made bad experience with GCJ, so I downloaded the latest SDK and
configured my linux to use that one instead of GCJ.
There are some cases where it does not behave as it should. Fedora also
used GCJ but turned to OpenJDK for the same reason. Using that I do not
have any problems.
Has anyone else gotten Subclipse installed and operating on Linux or
Ubuntu?
Yes. No problems with eclipse 3.4 and subclipse, but I have another Java
version. Maybe this is the cause of the misbehaviour that you observed.
I found a version of Skype client supposedly tailored to Ubuntu, but I
cannot make calls from it. Seems it may be a mismatch with my headset.
Sorry, I did not test Skype yet.
~dirk