* Mary Ellen Foster <foster@xxxxxxxxx> [2008-03-27 16:10]: > On 27/03/2008, Deepak Bhole <dbhole@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > With the way the naming is right now, users can enable a JPackage > > repository beside a Fedora repo, and are guaranteed to get the latest > > either from Fedora or JPackage, whichever is newer. Without the jpp in > > the release tag, this compatibility is broken. And it goes beyond the > > packages themselves -- it also affects dependent packages, > > Is that actually true these days? I gave up on trying to use JPackage > and Fedora together a while ago because there were incompatibilities > that neither side seemed to be falling over themselves to fix. > > Not that this is an argument for not allowing this again the future, > of course, and possibly it does work again even now. > There have been a few bumps along the way, yes :) However, it is our (Java Team's) intention to always allow smooth interoperability. We plan to have meeting with JPackage folks in the near term to iron out the current outstanding issues. Deepak > MEF > > -- > Mary Ellen Foster -- http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mef/ > Informatik 6: Robotics and Embedded Systems, Technische Universität München > and ICCS, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh > > -- > Fedora-packaging mailing list > Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
