End user needs info: Freeplane on Fedora 17

[Luca Botti]

Since is packed by Olea, why just ask for addition to fedora repositories?

On 12/04/2012 11:34, Johannes Lips wrote:
> 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
>
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