[fedora-java] New Java guidelines

Fernando Nasser fnasser at redhat.com
Wed Feb 27 15:10:57 UTC 2013


> 
> > I will only be happy when it goes to
> > %_javadir/%{groupid}/%{artifactId}/<version>/%{artifactId}-%{version}.jar
> > 
> > with a link for backwrd compatibility perhaps :-)
> 
> That's easily doable and up for discussion. Any opinion is
> valuable. (For compatibility with Debian I would probably create
> Maven repository in /usr/share/maven-repo/ not in %javadir)
> 

I can live with that.

I have been proposing this change for about 43 years, so please 
consider it "proposed" for appreciation in the mtg :-)

> With XMvn this kind of change doesn't require changes to packages,
> just approving by Java SIG and implementing this in XMvn itself.
> That's one of great advantages of not installing files manually
> but letting a specialized tool care about file installation.
> 

Note that we need to handle Ant builds too.

> --
> Mikolaj



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