JBoss and Fedora
Andrew Haley
aph at redhat.com
Tue Apr 10 10:23:41 UTC 2007
Fernando Nasser writes:
> Timothy Spaulding wrote:
> > What's going on with the JBoss acquisition? Are there plans in place to get JBoss packaged with
> > Fedora and released as an open source product? Any insights?
> >
>
> This is a multipart question:
>
> 1) Open source
>
> It always has been, as far as I remember at least
>
> 2) Packaged as RPMs
>
> Available since times immemorial at www.jpackage.org
>
> 3) Fedora
>
> Although you can use the JPackage.org RPMs with proprietary JDKs (maybe
> even with GCJ, I haven't tried), what you want is a set of RPMs
> pre-compiled with GCJ and bundled with Fedora.
>
> While I can't tell if that is in the plans, I can tell that it needs
> maven2 and that will come in Fedora 7. So, at least for Fedora 7+ there
> is hoe. For FC6 and previous there is no chance.
Seems reasonable. Actually building JBoss from source will be harder
than running it from the tarballs available from
http://labs.jboss.com/portal/ . gcj isn't missing anything that JBoss
requires, but there are bugs in gcj's class library that need first to
be fixed.
Andrew.
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