Fernando Nasser writes: > Timothy Spaulding wrote: > > What's going on with the JBoss acquisition? Are there plans in place to get JBoss packaged with > > Fedora and released as an open source product? Any insights? > > > > This is a multipart question: > > 1) Open source > > It always has been, as far as I remember at least > > 2) Packaged as RPMs > > Available since times immemorial at www.jpackage.org > > 3) Fedora > > Although you can use the JPackage.org RPMs with proprietary JDKs (maybe > even with GCJ, I haven't tried), what you want is a set of RPMs > pre-compiled with GCJ and bundled with Fedora. > > While I can't tell if that is in the plans, I can tell that it needs > maven2 and that will come in Fedora 7. So, at least for Fedora 7+ there > is hoe. For FC6 and previous there is no chance. Seems reasonable. Actually building JBoss from source will be harder than running it from the tarballs available from http://labs.jboss.com/portal/ . gcj isn't missing anything that JBoss requires, but there are bugs in gcj's class library that need first to be fixed. Andrew. -- Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, UK Registered in England and Wales No. 3798903 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
