[gentoo-dev] IDE idea

[gentoo-dev] IDE idea

[vapor]

Hello,
 First let me say that I am having alot of fun using/configuring Gentoo. It 
is great!
 I wanted to make a suggestion in case you guys hadn't thought of it 
already. I think it would be great if the Eclipse IDE was available through 
portage. I am not sure what would be involved in that as I am still pretty 
new to the whole thing. I haven't had time to sit down and look at how you 
guys have portage do what it does. I am also not sure what the licensing is 
on Eclipse. I do know that it is a really great IDE and it is open source. 
If you haven't checked it out already it is at http://www.eclipse.org 

Just something that I thought of a minute ago so I thought I would drop you 
all a line. Keep up the great work! 


Dan Feather
vapor@vapor.org

[gentoo-dev] Retries for emerge and lo issue.

[Chris Davies]

Hi,

I'm just installing Gentoo at this moment (it takes a fair amount of time 
on a modem :), and I've had a few ideas about what I'd like to add to the 
emerge script if possible. Do you accept patches from anyone, or does a 
perspective developer have to go through some debian-esque procedure?

Anyway, my idea was essentially to do with emerge scheduling and retries 
when doing 'emerge system', and just retries in general when doing any 
other emerge. I thought since you had three mirrors (at least one of which 
appears somewhat unreliable) then emerge could check each one in order of 
increasing ping time to establish which site to get a package from. I also 
thought that if it got error responses from all three sites it might queue 
the item for later download if it wasn't needed for a dependency 
immediately, perhaps this could be controlled by a MAXRETRIES variable in 
global make configuration file. Do you think this would be worth 
implementing, or do you think it would make the system to complex?

Also I noticed that the loopback interface is not started by default, if 
the user doesn't start it then they'll notice about the time that Perl 
finishes downloading. Is there any reason that this interface isn't started 
by the init process?

Anyway, thanks for the time spent on this nifty distribution.
C.Davies
(c.davies@cdavies.org)

Re: [gentoo-dev] IDE idea

[Karl Trygve Kalleberg]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 09:38:04PM +0000, vapor@vapor.org wrote:
> Hello,
> First let me say that I am having alot of fun using/configuring Gentoo. It 
> is great!
> I wanted to make a suggestion in case you guys hadn't thought of it 
> already. I think it would be great if the Eclipse IDE was available through 
> portage. I am not sure what would be involved in that as I am still pretty 
> new to the whole thing. I haven't had time to sit down and look at how you 
> guys have portage do what it does. I am also not sure what the licensing is 
> on Eclipse. I do know that it is a really great IDE and it is open source. 
> If you haven't checked it out already it is at http://www.eclipse.org 


Working on it. Ideally we'd like to compile this from scratch and not
include it as a binary. That is a bit tricky. I will give it a spin
before 1.0, and if it proves stable enough, we'll included it in 1.0.

If want to make certain I don't forget this, make a bug report in
bugs.gentoo.org about it, make it out as an enhancement request.


Kind regards,

Karl T