This rocks! :) When they refer to standardizing on one package format, are they talking about maybe some metapackage based on JPP's RPMS that can easily be converted to a .deb? Are there going to be any Redhat/Fedora Java devs attending? This is awesome news. Makes me hum that John Lennon song "Imagine". :) ---John --- Mark Wielaard <mark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > Various Debian packagers and developers are interested in coming > together to improve the Free Software tool chain, the programs and > the free runtime environments for software written in the java > programming language. > > For such a meeting we would like to include packagers from various > distributions to coordinate on library names, dependency and > versioning. And to share experiences on how to integrate and map > dependencies of tools like ant and maven when creating traditional > GNU/Linux distribution packages. > > So we are proposing a developer and packager meeting around > coordinating and improving the state of packaging of large scale > applications written in the java programming language using the GNU > Classpath, gcj and other free java-like tool chains for the various > GNU/Linux distributions. > > Please see DevJam wiki for details: > http://java.debian.net/index.php/DevJam > > We hope to get together a group of (20 till 30) people wanting to do > some hands on hacking to show the state of the art in packaging. > Resulting in the availability of several new packages, improvements to > the free tool chains and cross-distribution packaging conventions > quickly after the meeting. > > One of the ideas to keep the cost down for now is sharing the meeting > with another group in Oldenburg, Germany, from September 21st to > September 25th. http://meeting.ffis.de/Oldenburg2005/ > > If you are interested please add you name and thoughts about how to > make such a meeting most effective to the wiki! And please contact us > if you are interested in sponsoring the effort. > > Cheers, > > Mark > > -- > Escape the Java Trap with GNU Classpath! > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html > > Join the community at http://planet.classpath.org/ > > -- > fedora-devel-java-list mailing list > fedora-devel-java-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-java-list > ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
