On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 11:19 AM Michal Srb <m...@redhat.com> wrote: > This is more complicated and it would probably deserve a separate thread :) > Java and Python are completely different ecosystems. And Java ecosystem > (apps/libs) is just inherently unfriendly to Linux distributions. It's not > necessary bad or broken - it's just different. > > I am curious: what was the reason to develop against the packaged Java > libraries? > > Thanks, > Michal
Provenance. If you're working from a packaged Java library, Perl module, Python module, or any other kind of module, you know what source it was built from, roughly how, and have some listing in RPM of what it's compatible with. I've had people do "sudo pip install" that broke python modules used by many other components, including rpm itself. And I've had cases where what got built out of online dependences did not have a single versioned component in common with what got built a few days later, or that had circular dependency incompatibilities and would no longer build, at all. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
