[fedora-java] Re: jpackage.org and FC4

[Andrew Haley]

Gary Benson writes:
 > David Walluck wrote:
 > > Ian Pilcher <i.pilcher at comcast.net> wrote:
 > > > It would be a very good thing, IMNSHO, if the Fedora Java folks
 > > > and the JPackage folks could develop some sort of co-existance
 > > > strategy.
 > > 
 > > I don't think that there are any major issues with co-existence. The
 > > idea, as I gather from the list, was always to have FC4 be ``fully''
 > > jpp-compatible.
 > > 
 > > The major issue I see is that the .so files and other binaries
 > > aren't shipped separately. I never did catch the exact reason for
 > > this.
 > 
 > There's a multitude of reasons.  The biggest showstopper of them all
 > (from my point of view) is that there's no way to cause the native
 > stuff to be installed automatically.  Someone who did 'yum install
 > tomcat5' would have a very slow Tomcat if they did not know to run
 > 'yum install tomcat-gcjlibs' or whatever.

Precompiled binaries are bug, so adding the jars to the same RPM as
the binaries makes not a huge difference to the total size.

Andrew.