[Mageia-dev] Java-Policy first draft published

Mon Jan 10 23:45:32 CET 2011

On lundi 10 janvier 2011 at 21:02, Farfouille wrote :
+> I have published a first draft of Java application package policy.
+> http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=java_applications_policy
+
+Thank you for your work.
+I suppose this page is meant to replace
+http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=java_policy
+
+> Corrections and comments are welcome.
+
+About the GCJ section, how about replacing it with:
+"Building GCJ AOT bits is discouraged. If you have a good reason to build 
+them they must be placed in a sub-package named %{name}-gcj to avoid a 
+require on java-1.5.0-gcj on the main package, because this will force every 
+single user to install it even if one wants to use another JVM."
+
+In the section "Pre-built JAR files" it says "This is unacceptable in 
+Fedora", shouldn't it be changed to mageia? Or perhaps rephrased 
+differently?
+
+Also about section "Pre-built JAR files", maven has his own repository to 
+resolve dependencies, but ant based build scripts are generally bundled with 
+their required jars. So to be built against the system installed jars, the 
+spec file should either:
+- add some parameters to ant (if the build.xml supports it) constructed with 
+build-classpath
+- patch the build.xml to use the jars in the standard location
+- create symlinks where the build.xml expect them (using build-jar-
+repository?)
+
+Cheers
+-- 
+Renaud Michel
+