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. :) -EricI 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