[Mageia-dev] Java-Policy first draft published

Wed Jan 12 20:49:22 CET 2011

Le 12/01/2011 17:45, Frank Griffin a écrit :
+> 
+> Michael Scherer wrote:
+>> Le mercredi 12 janvier 2011 à 11:24 -0500, Frank Griffin a écrit :
+>>   
+>>> The bit about pre-packaged JARs may cause trouble.
+>> 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.
+>>
+>>   
+> Granted, but unless every free software project migrates to Maven, you'd
+> be refusing a lot of popular apps.   
+> 
+> In theory, the packager of such an application could create
+> supplementary packages for the specific versions of included JARs and
+> build them first from source.  But for something like NetBeans or
+> Eclipse, that's going to be a lot of work....
+> 
+> 
+> 
+I propose to keep the restriction, but to allow some exception, mainly blockbuster like
+Eclipse and Netbeans in order to build an appealing distro.
+
+Do you know other softwares that are worth to be exception ?
+--
+Farfouille
+