[Mageia-dev] Java-Policy first draft published

Tue Jan 11 08:07:24 CET 2011

Le 10/01/2011 23:45, Renaud MICHEL a écrit :
+> 
+> On lundi 10 janvier 2011 at 21:02, Farfouille wrote :
+> I suppose this page is meant to replace
+> http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=java_policy
+Yes
+> 
+> 
+> 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?
+Oops my bad !
+> 
+> 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?)
+
+I'll have a look during my lunch break
+> 
+> Cheers
+Thank you for proof reading
+
+--
+Farfouille
+