Hi, Then I am reverting the commit. Avoiding pulling a JRE or even JDK is good practice. There's a problem though that it is sometimes not easy to say a jar should belong to libgradle-core-java or libgradle-plugins-java by judging the file name.
Cheers, Kai-Chung Yan Miguel Landaeta <nomad...@debian.org> 於 2015年7月9日週四 下午10:27寫道: > On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 11:35:41AM +0200, Markus Koschany wrote: > > > > I don't mind merging the packages if there are no objections from Miguel > > or Hans. Though I also think that it makes sense to separate the > > libraries from the gradle package because the latter depends on a JRE > > and recommends a JDK which is undesired if an external application is > > only interested in some jar files from libgradle-plugins-java for > > example. If you want to simplify things, I suggest to merge > > libgradle-core-java and libgradle-plugins-java into libgradle-java > > instead but that would require another run through NEW. On the other > > hand perhaps we should wait with restructuring gradle until we have more > > data what applications really expect from gradle in the future. > > Hi, > > In general, I'll not be in favor of unneccesary package merging, > or in this case, of having only one gradle package. > > When I began packaging gradle years ago, I did a mistake and I created > binary packages for gradle and for every plugin. This was not correct and > caused too much work with every new release (having to pass through > NEW, complex dependencies rules, etc). > > IMO, having libgradle-core-java and libgradle-plugins-java is the > right compromise for current gradle usage in Debian. > > If for example, I'm developing something in kotlin, jruby, groovy or > even in java and I need to use a feature availaible in gradle core > library, I don't want to pull a list of unrelated plugins (and their > dependencies) plus a full gradle installation, I'd only want gradle > core jar. > > I think the current package arrangement should not be modified until > we have more data. Currently, gradle doesn't have that many reverse > dependencies so I suspect is very early to do this kind of changes. > > I'd focus on keeping up to date with upstream since that's usually a > challenge by itself. > > Cheers, > > -- > Miguel Landaeta, nomadium at debian.org > secure email with PGP 0x6E608B637D8967E9 available at http://miguel.cc/key > . > "Faith means not wanting to know what is true." -- Nietzsche > -- 殷啟聰 | Kai-Chung Yan 一生只向真理與妻子低頭 Full-time student of Providence University of Taiwan LinkedIn: <https://linkedin.com/in/seamlik> Blog: <seamlik.logdown.com>
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