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Re: [vtp-dev] Seeking advice and/or information from Linux users

Im running skype sucessfully on ubuntu 9,8. Eclipse 3.5 with
subversive on suns jdk.

2009/5/30 Dr. Dirk Schnelle-Walka <dirk.schnelle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 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
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