Category Archives: General

Another revision of the eclispe debian packages got uploaded. They fix a whole bunch of problems including powerpc support. As usual they can be fetched for i386 via deb http://www.backports.org/~mkoch/unstable/ ./ for powerpc via deb http://www.backports.org/~mkoch/unstable-powerpc/ ./ and the sources … Continue reading →

Thanks to the numerous people who gave feedback on the last upload I was able to do much fixes to the Eclipse Debian packages. They got improved very much. The most shiny feature is the powerpc support support with pre-compiled … Continue reading →

After a long time I got around to do some hacking on the Eclipse 3.1 packages for Debian. I uploaded them and they can be fetched with the following lines in your sources.list: deb http://www.backports.org/~mkoch/unstable/ ./ deb-src http://www.backports.org/~mkoch/unstable/ ./ The … Continue reading →

I updated my Eclipse Debian packages for unstable to version 3.1 RC4. This should be nearly identical to the upcoming final release of it. I needed to change the versioning scheme to make them work with the Debian archive software. … Continue reading →

I have uploaded some experimental Eclipse Debian packages to this location. Sorry, no apt-get lines yet. They are targetted for Debian unstable. Native compilation of jars for GCJ 4.0 is disabled for the moment because it takes too long on … Continue reading →

Yesterday evening Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (codename “Sarge”) got released. Thanks to all who helped with the release. It took a long time but finally did it. The Free Java support in this release of Debian is much better then before. … Continue reading →

For a project at my work I needed to replace invocations of methods with my own code and still be able to call the original code in replacement. I couldn’t change the source directly as I wanted the code to … Continue reading →

Late I spoke with Rege Wagner in person about GNU classpath and other free software to run them on some PDA device like the iPaq. We both agreed that the glibj.zip from GNU classpath e.g. used by jamvm is way … Continue reading →

I decided to start a new project after I got some feedback on my last past. Having some automake integration in Eclipse seems to be really needed. The project is called antiauto and can be found here now. More feedback … Continue reading →

Currently automake based projects are not very well supported in Eclipse. On the other side ant based projects are really well supported in Eclipse. To close this gap until one writes a plugin that does it for real I wrote … Continue reading →