On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 10:36 AM Michal Srb <msrb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Bill, > > > On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 4:29 PM Bill Chatfield via devel <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> I may take it as soon as I figure out how. >> >> But, if you're building a Java app, you probably use Maven to build it, so Maven is going to download from mavencentral, not the version packaged in Fedora. So I'm beginning to wonder how useful the packaged apps are. Am I missing something? > > > Packaged Java apps are useful, but packaged libraries (if not used by any Java app in the distribution) not so much. Nobody's going to develop anything against them. Like you said, developers will fetch what they need from Maven Central. > If we don't have packaged libraries, nobody can ship packaged applications. And there are definitely cases where people develop against packaged Java libraries. I used to work in one such case. Nowadays I live primarily in the Python ecosystem, and I can live entirely in packaged libraries there too. It'd be nice to have this again for Java. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
