On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 07:50, Egon Willighagen wrote: > Are there other people interested in setting up a Debian/Alioth project > that should centralize the various Debian/Java efforts? This project would > involve: I think much of this doesn't need an alioth project - it should just be discussed on this list.
> - a dh_java program (to determine which Debian packages can fullfill imports, > I've go a prototype for this) This would be nice as a tool for developers to use, but I don't think that it should be used when building the package - Build depends cannot be written at build time; actual dependencies found by this script would be the same. > - a task for java pieces > - or maybe even a CD image as an add on for Debian (including the Blackdown > stuff) Would this go against the alioth terms of use? If they're not already in the main distribution, then there must be a legal reason. What else would you fill a CD with other than blackdown java? > - a Build-Java-software-on-Debian-HOWTO (including chapters like "how to use > eclipse", "how to compile ProgramX with gcj", "how to run ProgramY with > sablevm", etc, possibly/likely to use existing FDL documentation) Nice. But I'd prefer wrapper scripts to be written for each compiler folowing a standard convention and linked with alternatives. > - a project to determine/write down what is 'missing' in this Debian/Java > (leading to implementations solving those ommissions) Please discuss these on this list. > - a repository of java debian packages that are not yet in Debian Again, if we can legally do this, why aren't they in Debian? -- +----------------------------------------------+ | Mark Howard cam.ac.uk mh344@ | | http://www.tildemh.com tildemh.com mh@ | +----------------------------------------------+