Hi Marian,
Thanks for the comments. We all had our turns being horrified by this
project. The more you look at it the more you want to use bleach as
eye-drops. Germano is trying to write an issue to at least try to steer
the upstream project in a more sensible directions.
On the CMake side, I gave some comments on what are the minimal changes
that are required. On Java side though, I don't know what the build
process is. Vitaly mentioned that java environment is tricky with things
like Kotlin compiler being removed, so that's why we are asking for some
second-opinions on this. The project seems to use only plain java, and
taking a quick look at the dependencies, it doesn't seem that they are
all packaged, but are there among them any red flags that would be a
complete deal-breaker?
Probably for the Java build it would be better to use Maven. Are there
other pointers of what upstream developers should look into/implement on
the Java side?
Re: Sergio, so far it seems all Italian, Portuguese and Estonian are
using different infrastructures.
On 2024/07/18 17:31, Marián Konček wrote:
Hi, I am a member of Fedora Java package maintainers.
I see several problems with this project:
1. *.jar, *.a, *.o files not only do not belong into Fedora sources,
they should not even be in *any* GitHub repository unless they are
used for testing. Binary components are not sources.
2. Requiring graphical Eclipse to build some Java code is a heavy
overkill, you should instead add a standard Java build system like
Maven or add CMake targets to build Java code using standard tools
like `javac` and `jar`.
3. generated files like *.d, *.mk should also not be in a source
repository, unless there is a good reason for them.
4. You will do the others a great service if you use the English
language in GitHub commits and READMEs. Open-source software is not
there for you but for the whole world.
5. (minor) The project is missing a README information what it
actually is about. All I could read about is that it is "some
middleware for Linux".
You should really take a look at other more standard projects on
GitHub, how they handle builds and library dependencies.
On 18. 7. 2024 16:42, Germano Massullo wrote:
Hello, I discussed the feasibility of packaging
https://github.com/italia/cie-middleware-linux
in Fedora devel Matrix channel with Cristian Le and xvitaly. With the
help of Cristian Le I wrote the following [1] draft that will be used
to open an upstream ticket to request various improvements to make it
possible to include the software in the Fedora repository.
We ended up needing the comment from Java package maintainers, if
they see any other no-go. I am in particular concerned about
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Java/#_pre_built_dependencies
Thank you
[1]: https://germano.fedorapeople.org/canc/cie_middleware.md
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