An alternative Eclipse 3 port

[Panagiotis Astithas <past@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I have been approaching the eclipse3 port from a slightly different and 
unfortunately slower angle. The linux buildfiles annoy me, partly 
because I am worried that the they may hide some obscure compatibility 
bug, and partly because I would like this to look like FreeBSD software. 
So I replaced every instance of linux with freebsd, as in the eclipse 2 
port. This began as an attempt to avoid some problems with plugins I 
used to have with the "linux" port (so to speak). I haven't confirmed 
whether they still persist in the last iteration of the port, so YMMV.

This port skeleton is a direct replacement for the java/eclipse port (no 
eclipse3 names in directories, etc.) and although I finished it last 
night, I think I managed to squeeze in (and tested) everything that has 
been noted in the recent threads. I still have some minor nits I would 
like to attend to, but I would like some feedback from the community 
whether this is a valid approach or I should quit pursuing it and go 
water my plants or something.

You can get the port skeleton here:
http://noc.ntua.gr/~past/freebsd/eclipse3-port.tgz

These are some guidelines I tried to follow:
- No reference to Linux if possible.
- The pathces in $FILESDIR are one patch per file, as in most ports.
- No hard-coded paths (ant, unzip, gmake, JAVA_HOME, etc.)
- Minimize diffs from the eclipse 2 port.

Of course it should be noted that this port borrows heavily from similar 
work done by Georg W. Koltermann, Torben Jager, Jeremy Faulkner, as well 
as the eclipse 2 port contributors, Alexander Kabaev, Jimmy Olgeni, 
Norikatsu Shigemura, and others I haven't tracked down in my safari 
through mailing list archives.

Cheers,
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Panagiotis Astithas
Electrical & Computer Engineer, PhD
Network Management Center
National Technical University of Athens, Greece