Re: [gentoo-java] contributing to Gentoo Java

[Joshua Nichols <nichoj@gentoo.org>]

Scott Amort wrote:
> 1) Has anyone else already started this work?  I don't want to duplicate
> other people's work.
>
>   
Not recently that I am aware of.
> 2) I have read and will follow the ebuild documentation at:
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/java/java-devel.xml, however it is rather
> basic.  My first major question is how to deal with Java Ant files that
> get jar dependencies rather than provide them (the example that just
> deletes distributed jars will not work in this instance)?
>
>   
I'm not sure what you mean. Are you referring to ant scripts that
download their dependencies? Is there a specific build.xml that you're
not sure to handle? If so, please share and we can take a look at it.
> 3) Many of Lenya's Java dependencies are part of the Excalibur project
> which contains updates to the now closed Avalon project (i.e.
> avalon-logkit, avalon-framework-api, avalon-framework-imp).  Has there
> been any discussion on where/how to deal with these new libraries?  Is
> anyone aware of API changes or other possible issues?
>
>   
There hasn't been any talk that I'm aware of.

Regards,

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Joshua Nichols
Gentoo/Java - Project Lead

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