From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GQpov-0002VU-Vn for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 22 Sep 2006 18:32:18 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8MIVW7i005229; Fri, 22 Sep 2006 18:31:32 GMT Received: from banta-im.com (roy-rogers.nfic.com [208.231.230.100]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8MIVV2D011663 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2006 18:31:32 GMT Received: from by banta-im.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA15875; Fri, 22 Sep 2006 14:31:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <45142C01.2070608@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 14:31:29 -0400 From: Joshua Nichols User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060807) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-java@gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Amort CC: gentoo-java@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-java] contributing to Gentoo Java References: <1158946058.24342.19.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1158946058.24342.19.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e00efda3-853c-4efe-a1b5-45c40438cdbe X-Archives-Hash: 35c1c7bb91e361b831bca72d6186f962 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, -- Joshua Nichols Gentoo/Java - Project Lead -- gentoo-java@gentoo.org mailing list