[Mageia-dev] Adding Java-Policy

Thu Jan 6 18:11:49 CET 2011

Hello,
+I am still a padawan packager, but I plan to work on java packages.
+On jeudi 06 janvier 2011 at 15:18, Daniel Kreuter wrote :
+> i'm working on http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Java_Packaging_Policy that
+> policy.  On mandriva wiki it's marked as obsolete and while reading over
+> it it seems that it's not needed in Mageia because we could use the
+> openjdk instead of ejc or gcj.
+> 
+> What do you think?
+
+That page is clearly outdated, but I think it would be good to have an up-
+to-date java policy for Mageia.
+
+I think the main focus should now be openjdk, and gcj should be optional.
+It is briefly mentioned in the page you refer to at the section "GCJ and 
+native code" that gcj AOT libraries could be put in an optional package.
+Debian already does this, for example
+http://packages.debian.org/lenny/ant
+http://packages.debian.org/lenny/ant-gcj
+So the base package containing the jars can be noarch, and only the optional 
+*-gcj package is arch specific and requires gcj.
+And, as many java programs simply won't work with gcj, those optional 
+packages would only be provided for programs/libraries that actually work 
+with gcj.
+
+
+-- 
+Renaud Michel
+