Swapping java library reviews?

[Mary Ellen Foster]

Hello all,

I'm working on creating a Fedora package for an application written in
Java -- JabRef (http://jabref.sourceforge.net) -- which has a
dependency on a *lot* of other Java libraries (see
http://mef.fedorapeople.org/packages/jabref-dependencies.html). I've
put the first bunch of "leaf nodes" up for review, but so far only one
of them has been looked at.

Karsten Wade suggested that if I came to this list, I might find
people who are dealing with similar issues of packaging Java libraries
that are prerequisites for other packages. I'm prepared to swap
reviews -- particularly of Java packages -- with anyone who might be
working on a similar goal.

Thanks for any help and suggestions,

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

[Francesco Crippa]

----- "Mary Ellen Foster" <mefoster(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Hello all,
>  
>  I'm working on creating a Fedora package for an application written
>  in Java -- JabRef (http://jabref.sourceforge.net) -- which has a
>  dependency on a *lot* of other Java libraries (see
>  http://mef.fedorapeople.org/packages/jabref-dependencies.html). I've
>  put the first bunch of "leaf nodes" up for review, but so far only
>  one of them has been looked at.
>  [...] 

Hi Mary

I and my colleagues are working to make an rpm for Grails (www.grails.org), and obviously
it requires tons of .jar dependencies...

We really want to have well-done rpms for this package because we have already packaged a
very big java web application: Symbolic (www.opensymbolic.org or
http://fedorahosted.org/symbolic), full compliant with fedora guide-line, but we need also
grails to push it into Koji (grails in needed only to build symbolic, not to run it) and
release it on fedora upstream repositories.

So maybe you need some package we've made or viceversa... If you'll try to have a
look on grails source, you could find what we're working on ;-)

Take care
Francesco


-- 
Francesco Crippa
fcrippa(a)byte-code.com
http://people.byte-code.com/fcrippa

[Mary Ellen Foster]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Francesco Crippa <fcrippa(a)byte-code.com&gt; wrote:
>  So maybe you need some package we've made or viceversa...
>  If you'll try to have a look on grails source, you could find what we're working
> on ;-) 
Well, it looks like we'll both need cglib; actually, I've already got
a package for that one up for review:
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469894

Looking at the list of files in grail's "lib" directory, I may have to
revise my view of what "a lot" of library dependencies is. Eek! :) I'd
be glad to help out with that wherever I can ...

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

[Karsten Wade]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 01:26:02PM +0100, Mary Ellen Foster wrote:

>  Thanks for any help and suggestions, 
Thought it might be useful to have this page:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ISV_packages_in_review

Add your complete lists there, in sections with bullets, I reckon.  As
not all the needs of this group is in JARs, I wanted a neutral
packages needing review list, but it can transclude or link to other
lists.  For example, I wouldn't want to pull in the entire Alfresco
list. :)

I'm calling it 'ISV' because to build this SIG's community, but
really, we can consider that to be open to anyone to add or help.  The
situation with JARs is more common to ISVs, for example, so bringing
the focus around here can make faster headway than not.

- Karsten
-- 
Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener
http://quaid.fedorapeople.org
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