A few months back, I had to start using a web service provided by a certain commercial content management system. This particular web service uses a namespace that is provided only by Apache Axis 1. At that time, I discovered that we are two versions behind on this dead product [1] (Apache Axis 2 is the version under active development). I started looking into what would be needed to get Apache Axis 2 into Fedora, and discovered a long list of missing dependencies and a long list of packages that would need to be upgraded. More recently, I took over the pmd package, and found that 3 other packages would need to be upgraded to move pmd to a newer version [2] [3] [4]. Both events made me wonder how much we are gaining by drawing spec files from JPackage, and how much we are losing. I wondered whether maintainers were not moving forward to newer versions of their packages because the JPackage versions were not moving forward. So I collected a little data on the subject. This is far from the final word; more information has to be collected to make any final determination. But I thought some of you might find what I have collected so far interesting. http://jjames.fedorapeople.org/java.html Comments welcome. Relevant bugs: [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=231153 [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465985 [3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465987 [4] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465989 -- Jerry James http://loganjerry.googlepages.com/ -- fedora-devel-java-list mailing list fedora-devel-java-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-java-list
