best option to get Eclipse for Linux running

[weberjn]

What would be the best option to get Eclipse for Linux running on FreeBSD?
Ideally with a shared filesystem for sources and Git repositories.

o bhyve + VirtFS/9p
o VirtualBox
o Linux Emulation for Eclipse
o ??

Which Linux Distro would be most suitable?

I gave up on hoping for an update of the Eclipse port.

 

[Geezer]

java/eclipse

 

[Jose]

What would be the best option to get Eclipse for Linux running on FreeBSD?
Ideally with a shared filesystem for sources and Git repositories.

o bhyve + VirtFS/9p
o VirtualBox
o Linux Emulation for Eclipse
o ??

Which Linux Distro would be most suitable?

I gave up on hoping for an update of the Eclipse port.

Did you file a PR? Most developers don't follow these forums. Providing a patch, like Tosyzyny says, is the shortest path to getting it updated. You'll probably run into a current problem with Llvm13 and Openjdk, though:

260319 – java/openjdk11: various segfaults with llvm13

bugs.freebsd.org

 

[drhowarddrfine]

java/eclipse

I thought the same thing.

 

[weberjn]

Providing a patch

Eclipse is a big beast and they release four times a year, so keeping the port up to date is quite a lot of work, I guess.

I had emailed the port maintainer, but no answer.

Best were if Eclipse would support FreeBSD without a port.

I have opened an enhancement request at Eclipse.

 

[Jose]

Best were if Eclipse would support FreeBSD without a port.

You mean you want it in base? There's a snowball's chance of that happening.

Or do you mean you hope the Eclipse foundation provides Freebsd binaries? Seems unlikely also.

 

[weberjn]

You mean you want it in base? There's a snowball's chance of that happening.

Or do you mean you hope the Eclipse foundation provides Freebsd binaries? Seems unlikely also.

You're right, the "no port" part will not happen, it should rather be a port without a lot of maintaining work. Rather like the ports of pure Java packages like Apache Maven or Tomcat.