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Re: Proposal: merge Jessie as an external project
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Michael Koch |
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Re: Proposal: merge Jessie as an external project |
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Thu, 28 Apr 2005 10:02:41 +0200 |
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On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 10:24:52AM +0200, Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 April 2005 22:44, Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:
> > I propose that we build Jessie directly into glibj.zip. Having Jessie
> > present by default would be convenient both for GNU Classpath developers
> > and also for packagers.
>
> Would that mean that the developers of Jessie would eventually come over to
> the classpath CVS?
> Then just 'forking' an implementation means more work for the developers to
> make work lighter for the distributors.
>
> From this thread I note that most developers are worried about distribution
> issues, not development issues. Which I find strange.
> A classpath user should not have to download the tarball and compile it
> himself, and a typical user will not do that anyway.
> He will just apt-get (or yum*) the package and dependencies come along. The
> need to put external libraries in your CVS, is frowned upon in just about
> all projects I have contributed on.
>
> A simple configure extention to print a 'please download jess, this subdir
> will not not be build' or similar should be enough. It certainly works for
> the projects I have seen.
> Any idea how big KDE would be if dependent libraries were to be included?
> Just unmaintainable..
The thing is that Casey wanted to contribute it to GNU classpath anyway and
maintain it in inside classpath, AFAIK. There are just some issues with FSF
last I heard. I see the inclusion as external project just a step towards a
full merge.
Michael
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Re: Proposal: merge Jessie as an external project, Archie Cobbs, 2005/04/28
Re: Proposal: merge Jessie as an external project, Sven de Marothy, 2005/04/27
RE: Proposal: merge Jessie as an external project, Jeroen Frijters, 2005/04/28