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 (1.7bis 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20070316/4e2e4ec4/attachment-0007.html>