Packaging an eclipse-RCP based app

[stefan riemens]

Hi all,

I'm looking into packaging kelpie, a flightplanner for flightgear.
This is a mature app, using the eclipse RCP framework. However, it
appears as if this would be the very first eclipse-rcp app in fedora.
(note, not all dependencies are packaged yet, most notably jogl).
Upstream is very responsive, he's made me an ant build script to start
with. See
https://sourceforge.net/projects/fgflightplanner/forums/forum/285350/topi...
for my communication with him.

I was hoping for some guidance, as I don't have java experience yet.

Thanks, Stefan

[Aleksandar Kurtakov]

>  Hi all,
>  
>  I'm looking into packaging kelpie, a flightplanner for flightgear.
>  This is a mature app, using the eclipse RCP framework. However, it
>  appears as if this would be the very first eclipse-rcp app in fedora.
>  (note, not all dependencies are packaged yet, most notably jogl).
>  Upstream is very responsive, he's made me an ant build script to start
>  with. See
>   https://sourceforge.net/projects/fgflightplanner/forums/forum/285350/topic
>  /3474526/index/page/1 for my communication with him. 
I have looked at the thread
and saw your error log. It looks like you are 
either missing commons-configuration.jar on the classpath. If it is loaded as 
an OSGi bundle from the application you will have to add osgi metadata to 
commons-configuration.jar. Please post your srpm somewhere and I may be able to 
help more.

Regards,
Alex

>  
>  I was hoping for some guidance, as I don't have java experience yet.
>  
>  Thanks, Stefan
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[Mat Booth]

2010/1/11 stefan riemens <fgfs.stefan(a)gmail.com&gt;:
>  Hi all,
>
>  I'm looking into packaging kelpie, a flightplanner for flightgear.
>  This is a mature app, using the eclipse RCP framework. However, it
>  appears as if this would be the very first eclipse-rcp app in fedora.
>  (note, not all dependencies are packaged yet, most notably jogl).
>  Upstream is very responsive, he's made me an ant build script to start
>  with. See
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/fgflightplanner/forums/forum/285350/topi...
>  for my communication with him.
>
>  I was hoping for some guidance, as I don't have java experience yet.
>
>  Thanks, Stefan 
It's worth noting that jogl was removed from Fedora [1] because its
licence is explicitly banned. Unless upstream has relicenced jogl to a
better licence it seems likely you may have to submit your package to
RPMFusion instead.

Regards,
Mat

[1]
http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/jogl/F-9/dead.package?revision=1...

-- 
Mat Booth

[Ismael Olea]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Mat Booth <fedora(a)matbooth.co.uk&gt; wrote:

>  It's worth noting that jogl was removed from Fedora [1] because its
>  licence is explicitly banned. Unless upstream has relicenced jogl to a
>  better licence 

At first glance seems it changed:
http://kenai.com/projects/jogl/sources/jogl-git/content/LICENSE.txt?rev=d...

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[Mario Torre]

Il giorno lun, 11/01/2010 alle 13.58 +0100, Ismael Olea ha scritto:
>  
>  
>  On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Mat Booth <fedora(a)matbooth.co.uk&gt;
>  wrote:
>          
>          It's worth noting that jogl was removed from Fedora [1]
>          because its
>          licence is explicitly banned. Unless upstream has relicenced
>          jogl to a
>          better licence 
>  
>  At first glance seems it changed:
>
> http://kenai.com/projects/jogl/sources/jogl-git/content/LICENSE.txt?rev=d...
I think this is worth checking too:

http://github.com/sgothel/jogl
http://blog.jausoft.com/2009/11/09/jogl-is-dead-long-live-jogl/#more-165

As far as I know Sven moved the project from kenai to github. I'm not
sure which version is currently developed, though.

Cheers,
Mario

[Jerry James]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:35 AM, Mario Torre <neugens(a)limasoftware.net&gt; wrote:
>  I think this is worth checking too:
>
>  http://github.com/sgothel/jogl
>  http://blog.jausoft.com/2009/11/09/jogl-is-dead-long-live-jogl/#more-165
>
>  As far as I know Sven moved the project from kenai to github. I'm not
>  sure which version is currently developed, though.
>
>  Cheers,
>  Mario 
Also take a look at this review request for jogl, which has seen
recent activity (but is still marked "Closed"!):

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439630
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[Mark Wielaard]

On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 12:44 +0000, Mat Booth wrote:
>  It's worth noting that jogl was removed from Fedora [1] because
> its
>  licence is explicitly banned. Unless upstream has relicenced jogl to a
>  better licence it seems likely you may have to submit your package to
>  RPMFusion instead. 
The parts that were under the SGI Free License B 1.0/1.1 (probably
derived from MESA) were "upgraded" to be fully free now under terms
identical to the terms of the X11 license.
http://www.fsf.org/news/thank-you-sgi

If that was the only issue, then jogl could take advantage of this
license upgrade and be resumbitted for inclusion into Fedora.

Cheers,

Mark

[Mat Booth]

2010/1/11 Mark Wielaard <mark(a)klomp.org&gt;:
>  On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 12:44 +0000, Mat Booth wrote:
> > It's worth noting that jogl was removed from Fedora [1] because its
> > licence is explicitly banned. Unless upstream has relicenced jogl to a
> > better licence it seems likely you may have to submit your package to
> > RPMFusion instead.
>
>  The parts that were under the SGI Free License B 1.0/1.1 (probably
>  derived from MESA) were "upgraded" to be fully free now under terms
>  identical to the terms of the X11 license.
>  http://www.fsf.org/news/thank-you-sgi
>
>  If that was the only issue, then jogl could take advantage of this
>  license upgrade and be resumbitted for inclusion into Fedora.
>  
Oh, very cool. I stand corrected. :-)


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