On Wednesday 07 Mar 2012 19:17:42 Ian Clarke wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Thomas Sachau <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > I dont contribute code as a freenet dev, but i do package it for Gentoo
> > linux and from that perspective, i have to strongly vote against gwt.
> > That thing is a big beast with many included external libs, often even
> > modified ones and a complex build system. I once tried to create a
> > package for it, it took me many hours and there was still no good
> > result. So unless this has greatly increased or someone else can provide
> > a sane package for Gentoo, requiring this framework to build freenet
> > would result in freenet being dropped from Gentoo as a package.
> 
> I assume this would only be a problem if it was a requirement that the
> Java-JavaScript compilation occurs during the Gentoo build process, rather
> than just distributing the JavaScript already compiled - right?

If it's an official package it needs to be built from scratch. And iirc right 
now it is an official package.

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