Cameron: > I think the key thing we are looking for is an understanding of what > needs to be done to package java applications - something like a HOWTO > or similar, such that other projects can follow your footsteps. > > Probably the best way to achieve this start packaging one of the > projects.
it's not really a question of how to do it at a basic level, it's more a question of how to do it properly in light of the java traditions of everyone self-bundling requirements with a few tweaks here and there, which is in conflict with the packaging needs of sharing libraries as much as possible. A side effect of Oracle tightening up on the JAI license terms is that it forces the FOSS Java projects not to use it, which (somewhat ironically) helps the packaging effort in the long run. from that perspective a first step of packaging java apps is to identify the common jars and package those (from source, no blobs) first. there are geo-java apps already in the main repositories (e.g. josm) which could perhaps be used as a model? see also this thread: http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.gis/month=20110201 there are other highly-relevant old threads but I'm stuggling with the older "pkg-grass@alioth" DebianGIS archives right now since they aren't indexed on Gmane yet.. regards, Hamish _______________________________________________ Live-demo mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo http://live.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc
