Summary of the 2008-04-08 Packaging Committee meeting

[Jerry James]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org> 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
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