Summary of the 2008-04-08 Packaging Committee meeting

[Les Mikesell]

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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