Hi again, Sorry for having been off-topic here. If someone ever gets interested in this, please contact me on my personal email (leopinheiro at gmail.com). Thanks Leonardo On 3/16/07, Leonardo Pinheiro <leopinheiro at gmail.com> wrote: > > On 3/10/07, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org > wrote: > > > Can you give us more details on what packages need JDK, and which JDK? > > > I'd like to understand what is going on, which packages are not ported > > > to Centosplus yet and why. > > > > There are bits of jboss and mod_jk stuff form rhwas4as that need the > > java stuff. > > > > > Do we have to build (compile) JDK? > > > > if you want to, but considering its unlikely we will get the sources for > > 1.5.x jdk, I'd say we might need the route of nosrc.rpm instead :) > > > > > Can't we use JPackage.org's and give users instructions on how to > > > install and enable their repository? > > > > Maybe thats possible ( I know at least the mysql-jdbc package has its > > origins in jpp ) , would you like to take this effort on ? > > > > Jim and HughesJr have been looking at the rhwas stuff, if you are > > interested in taking this up, maybe we can start a wiki page with details. > > > > - KB > > > > Talking about JPackage, besides the JDK, there are *lots* of other packages > there, some of them only in SRPM by now, some of them not usable yet (1.7b > is beta). For sure they have been making a good work, and of course it is > desirable that JPackage 1.7b (or whatever version) goes stable so that we > have something that is very usable (enterprise/stable). > > If RHWAS needs packages that are provided by JPackage (is this the case?), > and JPackage provides a great diversity of packages for the Java world, > > I'd like to rise a discussion on this: > > - how to provide a healthy/enterprise/[reasonably community supported] Java > environment on CentOS > - if packaging by ourselves is interesting > - if we could get more engaged on JPackage (or make our own JPackage > modified version) > - if it is interesting to make a QA team for the Java Ecosystem on CentOS, > because of its importance > > What do you thing? What is your opinion? > > Maybe Jim, HughesJr and Karanbir can also speak on this :-) > > Thanks > Leonardo >