To facilitate the maintenance of the java-gnome packages (ie
libgtk-java, libgnome-java, and company), I've created a new eclass.
There are currently seven packages which would be able to use this, and
the number is expected to increase as the java-gnome project adds more
bindings.
The initial motivation for this came when I was cleaning up and
migrating these packages to the new Java eclasses. As I was going along,
I kept changing my mind about how to best package them... and each time
I did, I would have to update 7 ebuilds. It got silly after awhile, so I
sat down to make an eclass in order to make it trivial to maintain the
actual packages with all the heavy lifting in the eclass.
The eclass can be seen at:
https://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/proj/java/migrated-java-experimental-overlay/eclass/java-gnome.eclass
A package using it:
https://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/proj/java/migrated-java-experimental-overlay/dev-java/libgtk-java/libgtk-java-2.8.7.ebuild
I would like to add this to the tree this weekend, and consequently bump
java-gnome up to 2.14.3 which was released recently.
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Joshua Nichols
Gentoo/Java Project Lead
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