[eclipse-dev] WPF Builds

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Since the Eclipse Platform 3.3 release
we have been providing an "early access" port of Eclipse Platform
and SWT running on the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). There has
been very little interest in this port, and nobody interested in making
the investment needed to turn this initial port into an officially supported
reference platform for Eclipse. One factor here is that we have been able
to exploit capabilities of new Windows versions using the old win32 API
that we previously thought would require a port to WPF. With the win32
port of Eclipse serving us well, there has been no need to do the work
required to complete, polish, and maintain the WPF port as well. 

For this reason, and because every port
we build incurs a cost in build speed, foundation and mirror server space,
etc, we are planning to stop producing a WPF build in the Eclipse Helios
(3.6) stream. If you have a strong interest in this port, and in particular
if you are interested in making the investment needed to maintain this
port, please chime in on the following bug report. If there is sufficient
interest in developing and using this port, we can certainly continue building
it.

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=293830

John