Any possibility of getting this software installer coded and in fedora (9 or 10)?

Mark markg85 at gmail.com
Sun Feb 10 14:13:19 UTC 2008


2008/2/10, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org>:
> Mark wrote:
>
> > The only issue i see is that it's just a mockup.. not one line of coding.
> > I can make the program in Java if you would like but i doubt that the
> > yum repo stuff is available for java.. and than again it's probably
> > better to use python for something like this (c/c++ would be best).
>
> Java programs can be included in Fedora. Either using IcedTea or GCJ.
> There are several dozen such programs included in the repository already.

oke.. but can they handle rpm stuff? like installing, searching,
fetching new updates? everything yum can. If they can.. how?

>
> > So any possibility of making this and putting it in fedora anytime soon?
> >
> > [1] http://www.flickr.com/photos/njpatel/383862980/sizes/o/
>
> You should probably talk to the PackageKit folks. http://packagekit.org
>

Perhaps later.




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