[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Java on 770

[From: Murray Cumming]

On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 11:50 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
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> Murray Cumming schreef:
> > On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 18:02 +0200, Tommi Komulainen wrote:
> >> On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 15:13 +0200, ext Tommi Komulainen wrote:
> >>>       * http://maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-developers/2006-November/006188.html
> >>>         Java on the 770
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> >>>         "Now that Java will be put under the GPL is there any plan (from
> >>>         Nokia) to integrate it into the firmware?"
> >> We don't have any plans at the moment.
> >>
> >> On personal note, if someone makes nice packages it would be easier to
> >> gather some community effort around Java. It would also make our lives
> >> easier when the question about integrating Java comes up again.
> > 
> > So, something for a new garage.maemo.org project. Then we can just
> > apt-get install it from extras.
> 
> Do we really need a garage project for something that is basically a Makefile? I can
> already see it happening that someone is going to but the java sources in garage svn
> "because it's easier" and we end up with a unmaintainable fork.
> I'm all for java packages for maemo, but lets do it in a sustainable way.

Currently the only way to upload packages to extras (previously contrib)
is to create a garage project. But that doesn't force you to use the svn
repository in garage or otherwise fork anyone's source code.

If there's a better way to get packages into extras, I'd like to know
about it.

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Murray Cumming
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