[Mageia-dev] Java-Policy first draft published

Wed Jan 12 17:32:35 CET 2011

Le mercredi 12 janvier 2011 à 11:24 -0500, Frank Griffin a écrit :
+> Farfouille wrote:
+> > Hi
+> >
+> > I have published a first draft of Java application package policy. http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=java_applications_policy
+> >
+> > Corrections and comments are welcome.
+> >   
+> 
+> The bit about pre-packaged JARs may cause trouble.  In theory, it's
+> great, but many applications depend upon certain versions of their
+> utility JARs, and can't all run with the latest versions.  Any such app
+> would have a Requires for its specific version, which would prevent the
+> utility JAR from being updated with a newer version for other apps. 
+> This is why EJB allows EJB apps to include their own specific versions
+> of utility JARs, which are visible to them but not to other apps or the
+> container itself, and also why Maven uses versioned artifacts.
+
+That's the same issue for everything.
+
+Shipping binary jar given by upstream tarball cause trouble because you 
+1) cannot patch them in case of bug
+2) cannot see how and what was compiled 
+
+That's not very free software friendly, and I think we should refuse
+that.
+
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+