Re: [fedora-java] Re: Fedora Core 5 Wishlist

[Gary Benson]

Chris Hubick wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 14:56 +0100, Gary Benson wrote:
> > Ian Pilcher wrote:
> > > I believe that there needs to be a clear strategy for the
> > > co-existence of Fedora gcj packages and JPackage "pure Java"
> > > packages.  The current situation is a mess:
> >
> > Suggestions welcome :)
>
> Distribute JPackage packages "as is".

There's no way we can commit to shipping JPackage packages
unmodified.  But, even if we could...
> For each JPP package shipped in Fedora, create a corresponding
> "<jppname>-bin" package containing the compiled library code.

There are several reasons not to do this but the showstopper is that
if someone does 'yum install jonas-examples' on an empty system they
will not get the native code.

Cheers,
Gary