John M. Gabriele wrote: > --- David Walluck <david@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Ian Pilcher <i.pilcher@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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
