On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Colin Walters <walters@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Well, largely our "core" stack (and by this I mean comps) does not > (yet) have dependencies on many Java libraries. So there's not a big > deal swapping out say our objectweb-asm for JPackage's. > > However, this is most definitely not a sustainable system in the long term. > > I sort of view JPackage as just a specific instance of the > cross-distribution collaboration problem. Most distributions tend to > focus primarily on dependencies driven by desktop apps or their own > internal needs, but the general free software world is far larger than > that, even before OpenJDK opened up a lot of Java software to us. So there are a bunch of Java packages that I use that I would like to drive into *some* repository where they can get picked up and used by others with similar needs. I've been driving towards Fedora so far. What's a good long-term solution, then? Should I keep that up, focus on JPackage, help figure out how the two are going to cooperate, ...? -- Jerry James http://loganjerry.googlepages.com/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
