* Benjamin Reed <ranger@xxxxxxxxxxx> [2008-07-04 15:30]: > The biggest issue with that, I think, is that anyone using Maven is > already completely outside of the normal "ask the distro for a > dependency" way of doing things; doing maven-based development on fedora > will still always end up using maven for resolving dependencies. :( Deepak Bhole has done some great work on the maven package in Fedora which one can use to build _only_ from other stuff in the distro and never touch the maven repos. > Not to mention when you get into all of the OSGI stuff where foo uses > bar 1.x and baz uses incompatible-bar 2.9.x and it does classloading to > allow them to be available simultaneously. It's the same root issue, though: either people move to new versions -- the one we ship -- or they maintain compat- packages. The former is obviously preferred :) Andrew -- fedora-devel-java-list mailing list fedora-devel-java-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-java-list
