[fedora-java] GNU Classpath distro DevJam

[John M. Gabriele]

This rocks! :)

When they refer to standardizing on one package format,
are they talking about maybe some metapackage based on
JPP's RPMS that can easily be converted to a .deb?

Are there going to be any Redhat/Fedora Java devs
attending?

This is awesome news. Makes me hum that John Lennon
song "Imagine". :)

---John



--- Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Various Debian packagers and developers are interested in coming
> together to improve the Free Software tool chain, the programs and
> the free runtime environments for software written in the java
> programming language.
> 
> For such a meeting we would like to include packagers from various
> distributions to coordinate on library names, dependency and
> versioning. And to share experiences on how to integrate and map
> dependencies of tools like ant and maven when creating traditional
> GNU/Linux distribution packages.
> 
> So we are proposing a developer and packager meeting around
> coordinating and improving the state of packaging of large scale
> applications written in the java programming language using the GNU
> Classpath, gcj and other free java-like tool chains for the various
> GNU/Linux distributions.
> 
> Please see DevJam wiki for details:
> http://java.debian.net/index.php/DevJam
> 
> We hope to get together a group of (20 till 30) people wanting to do
> some hands on hacking to show the state of the art in packaging.
> Resulting in the availability of several new packages, improvements to
> the free tool chains and cross-distribution packaging conventions
> quickly after the meeting.
> 
> One of the ideas to keep the cost down for now is sharing the meeting
> with another group in Oldenburg, Germany, from September 21st to
> September 25th. http://meeting.ffis.de/Oldenburg2005/
> 
> If you are interested please add you name and thoughts about how to
> make such a meeting most effective to the wiki! And please contact us
> if you are interested in sponsoring the effort.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mark
> 
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