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

[Gary Benson]

John M. Gabriele wrote:
> --- David Walluck <david at zarb.org> 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. [snip]
> 
> Could you please explain what shared libs have to do with Java
> packages here?
> 
> What do you mean by .so files being shipped separately? Don't Java
> packages just come with either:
> 
> 1. jar files that consist of bundled-up .class files, or
> 2. binaries built with GCJ that link with the libgcj already on your
>    system?

Java packages in Fedora (since FC4) always contain jar files.
Sometimes they also contain native code shared libraries for libgcj.

Cheers,
Gary