--- Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Lun 25 juillet 2005 04:42, John M. Gabriele wrote: > > > Should FC4 users be using *any* packages from jpackage.org? > > jpackage.org is a kind of upstream for FC java packages. JPP was born a What does the acronym "JPP" stand for? > few years ago when there was no free Java stack and no distro was > seriously packaging java apps. Several users of rpm distributions got > together to package Java software in an rpm format. > > One of our cunning decisions was to be JVM agnostic. When gcj matured Red > Hat was able to take our packages and use them with little changes in > Fedora. There is a strong wish both Red Hat and Fedora side not to break > this flow, so the JPP and FC java repositories should be compatible > (indeed, several JPP members are active on FE FE? > or even joined Red Hat, and > several Red Hat employees were accepted in the JPP team early this year). > The FC java stacks follows JPP packaging conventions. > > JPP serves as an incubator : you can package java software that depends on > non-free java bits, or java software Red Hat is not interested in, and > when the conditions change (non-free bits get reimplemented in classpath > or interest arises) the package finds its way in FC. That also means some > software is only available in JPP today, and JPP is not pure FOSS (meaning > the answer to your original question depends on what exactly you want to > achieve). > > Also JPP is open to packagers from all the rpm world (RHEL, FC, Mdk, > Novell, Solaris, OpenPKG...). We try not to depend on a particular > distribution quirk so the same packages work as-is everywhere. The team > has never been big and we've never rejected anyone. > > Regards, > > -- > Nicolas Mailhot > > ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
