On Tue, 5 Nov 2013 18:38:38 +0000 <devel-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Quoting Rahul Sundaram (2013-11-05 17:46:55) > > Hi > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Manuel Faux wrote: > > > > > Is it correct that the NetBeans IDE is currently not packed for > > > Fedora? I checked the "netbeans" package, which was last built > > > for fc17. Is there any technical or license reason for this or is > > > just nobody packing it right now? > > > > > > > Someone from Sun used to be the maintainer and noone is doing it > > right now. No technical or licensing issues if anyone is > > interested in packaging it afaik. > > More specifically look at: > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/java-devel/2010-November/003980.html > > Reason nobody picked it up is that is has relatively big dependency > chain and there was nobody interested enough (from maintainer > perspective). I have investigated the build process of NetBeans and I can just can go along with the fact that its dependency chain is quite long. Nevertheless I would like to reactivate it. If anyone is interested in helping, feel free to contact me. It seems like, that also netbeans-platform was not updated since quite a long time, which means that this package needs to be updated before. Manuel -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
