On Nov 15, 2007 12:57 AM, Alexey Petrenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of the Tomcat developers has pointed me to JPackage project[1]. > This project is distributing a rather big number of Java based > projects for Linux in common way. > It also distributes JDKs. Now they have only Sun JDK in their list. > > I think it would be good for Harmony to try to participate in this project. > > I've wrote a letter to JPackage discussion list and has received few > favorable responses. > > So we probably should create JPackage compatible rpm of Harmony and > suggest it for inclusion. > > The good thing that we can demonstrate all the benefits of Harmony's > modularity by creating a set of rpms and let the user choose which > parts of Harmony he really needs. > Not so good thing is that we need significant changes to Harmony's > build system to be fully compatible with building Harmony from source > RPM. Which is probably not a requirement for JPackage but a good form > for Linux community. > > However we can start from simple binary rpm based on Harmony M3 for example. > > Thoughts? Objections?
Strongly support the proposal. Thanks. > Thanks in advance. > > SY, Alexey > > 1. http://www.jpackage.org > -- http://xiao-feng.blogspot.com
