[fedora-java] jpackage.org and FC4

[John M. Gabriele]

--- Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> wrote:

> 
> On Lun 25 juillet 2005 04:42, John M. Gabriele wrote:
> 
> > Should FC4 users be using *any* packages from jpackage.org?
> 
> jpackage.org is a kind of upstream for FC java packages. JPP was born a

What does the acronym "JPP" stand for?

> few years ago when there was no free Java stack and no distro was
> seriously packaging java apps. Several users of rpm distributions got
> together to package Java software in an rpm format.
> 
> One of our cunning decisions was to be JVM agnostic. When gcj matured Red
> Hat was able to take our packages and use them with little changes in
> Fedora. There is a strong wish both Red Hat and Fedora side not to break
> this flow, so the JPP and FC java repositories should be compatible
> (indeed, several JPP members are active on FE

FE?

> or even joined Red Hat, and
> several Red Hat employees  were accepted in the JPP team early this year).
> The FC java stacks follows JPP packaging conventions.
> 
> JPP serves as an incubator : you can package java software that depends on
> non-free java bits, or java software Red Hat is not interested in, and
> when the conditions change (non-free bits get reimplemented in classpath
> or interest arises) the package finds its way in FC. That also means some
> software is only available in JPP today, and JPP is not pure FOSS (meaning
> the answer to your original question depends on what exactly you want to
> achieve).
> 
> Also JPP is open to packagers from all the rpm world (RHEL, FC, Mdk,
> Novell, Solaris, OpenPKG...). We try not to depend on a particular
> distribution quirk so the same packages work as-is everywhere. The team
> has never been big and we've never rejected anyone.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Nicolas Mailhot
> 
> 



		
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