Summary of the 2008-04-08 Packaging Committee meeting
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon May 12 23:19:27 UTC 2008
Jerry James wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Colin Walters <walters at 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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