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Bug 329284

Summary:

Remove AIX/Motif port

Product:

[Eclipse Project] Platform

Reporter:

Silenio Quarti <Silenio_Quarti>

Component:

Releng

Assignee:

Kim Moir <kim.moir>

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

QA Contact:

Severity:

normal

Priority:

CC:

daniel_megert, eclipse.felipe, gheorghe, grant_gayed, john.arthorne, kim.moir, Mike_Wilson, pwebster, remy.suen

Version:

3.7

Target Milestone:

3.7 M4

Hardware:

Power PC

OS:

AIX Motif

Whiteboard:

Bug Depends on:

Bug Blocks:

317309

Attachments:

Description	Flags
patch	none
mylyn/context/zip	none
patch	none
patch to remove linux motif x86 sdk	none

Description Silenio Quarti

2010-11-02 14:14:30 EDT

As of Eclipse 3.7 M3, we have started to provide two new builds of the Eclipse Platform and SWT:  AIX/GTK ppc and ppc64.   These builds were introduced for the following reasons:

- The need for a 64 bit port for AIX.  Machines with 64 bit processors have become the standard in servers like AIX, Solaris, etc.
- A 64 bit GTK port already exists and implementing a 64 bit Motif port is a non-trivial task.
- Motif is showing it is age. It has became increasingly hard to add new modern features to the Motif port given that Motif itself has no active development. Support for accessibility, advanced graphics, transparent shells is not available or is limited.

For these reasons, and because every port we build incurs a cost in testing time, build speed, foundation and mirror server space, etc, we are planning to stop producing the AIX/Motif ppc build in the Eclipse Indigo (3.7) stream.

Comment 1 Kim Moir

2010-11-02 14:23:56 EDT

Yayayayayayay!

Comment 2 John Arthorne

2010-11-02 14:32:06 EDT

I have a feeling the Motif port is about to be taken out behind the shed and put out of its misery.

Comment 3 Kim Moir

2010-11-02 15:03:45 EDT

Created attachment 182233 [details]
patch

Comment 4 Kim Moir

2010-11-02 15:03:48 EDT

Created attachment 182234 [details]
mylyn/context/zip

Comment 5 Kim Moir

2010-11-02 15:05:31 EDT

SWT team, do you still need the linux.motif platform?  I could remove it as well since my understanding it was only there so you could verify Motif on aix due to hardware problems.

Comment 6 Kim Moir

2010-11-02 15:07:50 EDT

Created attachment 182236 [details]
patch

Comment 7 Silenio Quarti

2010-11-02 16:39:14 EDT

We still have the HPUX/Motif build, but I believe it is ok to remove the linux.motif build at this point.

Comment 8 Kim Moir

2010-11-02 16:56:39 EDT

Created attachment 182257 [details]
patch to remove linux motif x86 sdk

Comment 9 Kim Moir

2010-11-02 17:30:02 EDT

Test build for aix motif ppc removal was successful.

Comment 10 Kim Moir

2010-11-02 20:28:25 EDT

And linux motif x86 SDK will also no longer be available as of N20101102-2000.

re comment #2,
>>I have a feeling the Motif port is about to be taken out behind the shed and put out of its misery.
+1 Less motif misery = faster build