End user needs info: Freeplane on Fedora 17

[Johannes Lips]

As the maintainer of freemind, I also looked into packaging freeplane 
but I gave up since it adds a whole bunch of new deps. I didn't have the 
time and motivation to add all those, just for a program which basically 
does the same as freemind. I know that it does have some additional 
features and is a bit better maintained, but this didn't justify the 
additional workload for me.
This is also a result of the way Java projects ship their software which 
makes it hard to use it in a way, we need it in fedora.
I know that there were some issues of freemind with regard to exporting 
(which should be mostly fixed by now) and with the usage of Japanese 
Letters or Signs, but this is more an upstream thing and there is not 
much we could do about.
The only way freeplane is coming to fedora is that someone steps up and 
does the required packaging work. (Note that I am also not really a 
programmer and was also just an "end user" before I started working on 
fedora) ;-)

Johannes


On 04/12/2012 01:39 AM, nomnex wrote:
> http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
>
> Will there be a Freeplane package available on the F17 repository (&  Is
> there a Freeplane Fedora package maintainer)?
>
> I am using Freemind 0.9 on F15. It is not without problems.
>
> Thank you