The Eclipse IDE has been removed from the newest version of debian stable. This is somewhat of a case of déjà vu, as a few years ago KDevelop3 was similarly removed from Kubuntu, at a time when that was development environment for drlog, even though, at the time, KDevelop3 was stable and functional, whereas its replacement, KDevelop4, was... well, to be polite, completely broken. That was when I switched to Eclipse.
One can, in theory, still download a functional Eclipse from eclipse.org to use on debian, but when I did that the result was a completely useless program that spewed java errors and would not display dialog boxes.
So it is, again, time to go looking for an IDE for developing drlog.
I expect to be moving to Codelite, although it does seem to have some issues for serious development work, in particular a rather poor editor that doesn't, as far as I can tell, allow multiple views on different parts of a file. On the other hand, its use of virtual directories makes it easy to move projects from Eclipse to Codelite. Anyway, I shall try it for a while and see what happens.
In any case, rather than trying to inflict my choice on others, I shall be keeping the raw drlog makefile current, so that it can be used directly to build the program regardless of a user's choice of development environment. Sometime shortly I shall remove the Eclipse-related files from the repository.
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