Bruce Rothermal wrote:
> So before you vote this down. How long will it take to get this bug 
> fixed. This package (vuze) is not being ported because it is an 
> interesting piece of software. It is a required mandatory package 
> needed for a project in the HPC Deployer project.

Bruce,

There's an outstanding issue with the classpath that stops Vuze from 
actually running. This has been seen on 3 separate installs on 3 
separate systems so it's not environmental. Spoorthy needs to fix that 
before anyone should even consider voting on it. It's in the comments.

Amanda


>
> Bruce
>
>
> On May 13, 2009, at 8:41 AM, George Drapeau wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Eric Reid - Sun ISV Engineering wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> - the app's BitTorrent upload and download capabilities worked 
>>>>> fine; it's good enough to use as a BitTorrent client, but will be 
>>>>> missing some functionality (no rendering of the Vuze HD Network 
>>>>> page since no HTML browser support since it's not in SWT on 
>>>>> OpenSolaris as far as I could tell).
>>>> If main functionality is there but satelite functionality isnt 
>>>> working, it's good enough for /contrib. But not for other repos.
>>> Gosh, I have a HUGE problem with this. IPS packages enforce 
>>> dependencies at install time, as do all mature packaging systems 
>>> today. The fact that SJ has a bug, IMHO, is *not* reason enough to 
>>> claim these IPS packages in /contrib are "good enough". All the 
>>> caveats in the world will not head off potential installation 
>>> experience headaches, which will then turn people off from OpenSolaris.
>> You've changed my mind; rather, I should have been more specific in 
>> my last message about my opinion on the Vuze / Azureus package.  I 
>> would call Vuze an alpha or beta level release because it works but 
>> lacks known functionality; I can live with that, if the package 
>> submitter were to rapidly improve the package.  But this whole 
>> lack-of-dependency-checking thing is a show-stopper for packages 
>> submitted via Juicer.  I apologize; I completely ignored that in my 
>> most recent message, even though I mentioned it my early comments on 
>> the package.
>>
>> Dependencies not working: sounds like a no-go to me for any package 
>> submission that specifies package dependencies.  Seems like that 
>> should get fixed, then every package submitted that specified 
>> dependencies can be re-checked easily, then they can all go through.  
>> But they shouldn't go through now.
>>
>> Separately, Amanda made a good point about the other Vuze package 
>> bug, not correctly specifying the path to swt.jar.  That does need to 
>> be fixed before this package is ready to be released.
>>>
>>> I could not in good conscience give a +1 to such packages.
>>>
>>> I would be curious to hear the opinions of the other SW-Porters Core 
>>> Contributors.
>>>
>> Me, too.  I think it's straightforward enough: why allow packages to 
>> be released when we know they're missing the dependency stuff?  The 
>> bug will get fixed at some point, then we'll just have more packages 
>> ready to be published, but not until then.  Do the other Core 
>> Contributors agree?
>>
>>   G.
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