Jerry James wrote:
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Colin Walters
<walters(a)verbum.org> wrote:
> Well, largely our "core" stack (and by this I mean comps) does not
> (yet) have dependencies on many Java libraries. So there's not a big
> deal swapping out say our objectweb-asm for JPackage's.
>
> However, this is most definitely not a sustainable system in the long term.
>
> I sort of view JPackage as just a specific instance of the
> cross-distribution collaboration problem. Most distributions tend to
> focus primarily on dependencies driven by desktop apps or their own
> internal needs, but the general free software world is far larger than
> that, even before OpenJDK opened up a lot of Java software to us.
So there are a bunch of Java packages that I use that I would like to
drive into *some* repository where they can get picked up and used by
others with similar needs. I've been driving towards Fedora so far.
What's a good long-term solution, then? Should I keep that up, focus
on JPackage, help figure out how the two are going to cooperate, ...?
If they run on other distributions (and I can hardly imagine a java
package that wouldn't) they will be more widely useful in jpackage.
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Les Mikesell
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