Mark wrote:
>> Packaging is not a free thing. It takes time energy and
someone who is
>> going to deal with it. Most people who have packages are usually
>> swamped as it is... so if you see something you would like to get into
>> Fedora.. first check to see if someone is already packaging it, and
>> then volunteer to do it yourself (or help someone who can). Otherwise
>> its not going to happen.
> Plus, there's a little fame if not fortune, and usually a few people
> willing to help.
>
> I'd be willing to be that if you can *use* netbeans, you can certainly
> learn to *package* netbeans, and as an avid user, you're in excellent
> position to make sure the package actually works. :)
>
> -Eric
I can't make RPM packages from scratch so therefore i think it's best
to leave that to a professional RPM packager. But if noone else is
willing to do it than i would like to give it a try.. and i probably
need a lot of help along the way.
So is anyone up to this? or is there someone that is willing to help
me with this? i have nearly no rpm packaging experience. (i edited
specs before and compiled the package but i didn't made a spec from
scratch)
I think that having netbeans in Fedora would be great, so I'm wlling to help
were I can (I already maintain 170+ packages). But my java packaging experience
is limited. Are there any jpackage people here who are also willing to help?
Nicolas? Ville?
Also if I were you I would start with trying to get it to compile on F-8 using
icedtea, don't worry about packaging yet, first just try to get it to compile
and run from the released sources?
(Are the sources complete?)
Regards,
Hans