----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stanislav Ochotnicky" <sochotnicky@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, March 9, 2012 11:58:39 AM > Subject: Re: [fedora-java] Roadmap for Java things in Fedora > > Quoting Garrett Holmstrom (2012-03-08 23:11:26) > >On Mar 7, 2012 7:54 AM, "Stanislav Ochotnicky" > ><sochotnicky@xxxxxxxxxx> > >wrote: > >> - Remove mention of maven2 in guidelines since all supported > >> versions > >> have maven-3.x. Some other small cleanups as well perhaps > > > >Is there already a separate set of java guidelines for EPEL? If > >there isn't > >does this mean we should create them? > > I am not sure why maven2 part peaked your interest with regards to > EPEL. > Maven 2 is not present there at all. There is in fact very little > Java > world in EPEL and if someone wants to change that: Great! But heed my > warning: Unless you are one-man-packaging-army, you'll end up crazy > old > man/woman before packaging anything useful. > > As far as I am concerned: EPEL follows Fedora guidelines that existed > at > the time when RHEL was branched off Fedora. So it might make sense to > freeze them in some state somewhere for posterity I guess, but I > wouldn't touch them (much) There are a number of libraries available in RHEL 6 which should enable enhancing EPEL 6 substantionally as long as one don't depend on maven or is ready to either redo the package build system to use ant (mvn ant:ant might be your friend) or package Maven into EPEL 6 (this is something I think will be too much work). EPEL 5 should be out of question for almost everything java related as the java packaging changed a lot since RHEL 5 release. P.S. This mail is too not discourage too much from working on EPEL :). Alex > > > -- > Stanislav Ochotnicky <sochotnicky@xxxxxxxxxx> > Software Engineer - Base Operating Systems Brno > > PGP: 7B087241 > Red Hat Inc. http://cz.redhat.com > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
