On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 06:29 Vitaly Zaitsev via devel < devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On 20/07/2021 11:18, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > You're violating the bundling and naming practices that EPEL and > > Fedora have used for years, especially their insistence that they > > build from source, not repackaging bundled binaries from someone else > > into an RPM. > > This is not a Fedora package. This is a COPR package. > Your wording in your initial emails made it sound like this was a package either in EPEL or going to be in EPEL. In a very rare case, I was in agreement with Nico and going to say the same things they did. Thank you for clarifying this but it was confusing. > COPR guidelines allows usage of pre-built binaries if they don't violate > the Fedora Legal guidelines[1]: "You do not need to comply with > Packaging Guidelines". > > > There are a whole stack of security reasons to discourage > > that, and assuring the original source code and build tools are > > available for others to modify is vital to "free software" in the GPL > > sense. > > PyCharm CE binaries are licensed under the terms of the Apache 2.0 > license, which is completely free and opensource. > > > To quote you: "PyCharm CE cannot be completely built from sources". If > > that were completely true, it could not be built on COPR. > > That's why we use pre-built binaries. > > > If it's > > broken on Fedora, please, work with *that*, and I suspect that > > resolving that will resolve the missing dependency issue. > > Java SIG tried to revive the Java stack on Fedora several times. It's > still dead. > > When the Java stack will be operational again, we will switch to > building from sources. > > [1]: > > https://docs.pagure.org/copr.copr/user_documentation.html#what-i-can-build-in-copr > > -- > Sincerely, > Vitaly Zaitsev (vit...@easycoding.org) > _______________________________________________ > 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 > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure > -- Stephen J Smoogen. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Flame wars in sci.astro.orion. I have seen SPAM filters overload because of Godwin's Law. All those moments will be lost in time... like posts on BBS... time to reboot.
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