> What might take time would be to package all the dependencies for > building specific android applications and make sure they can cross > compile fine.
Last time I was on the #replicant IRC, I spoke to Julien (iirc). Many of the android applications depend on Gradle, and in turn, Maven but there are major issues with reproducibility ... I'd say a good 90% of the software in Maven C*ntral is not reproducible. I tried to write some scripts etc. that reconstructs the software from the incomplete source jars, by iterating over the java files continuously until nothing else can be built, but this failed on all but ~10% of java class files. I even tried auto-patching the sources, using decompiled byte code from the 'binary' jars, this improved yield, but not massively. Although I managed to reconstruct some classes. I didn't manage to reconstruct a complete piece of software ... it was that bad. The other thing, worth noting, is that the software in Maven C*ntral is all inter-dependent. If you wish to pull sources, and their dependencies as sources ... and theirs ... etc. you end up getting over 10 gig of sources alone, it's at this point I stopped downloading, and only really managed to get an incomplete sample to work with. idk if f-droid managed to work around this or not, or whether the situation is much different with Android? If you want my honest opinion though, the appropriate thing to do would be to manually reconstruct the whole of Maven C*ntral using alternate sources (git, svn etc.). I know Julien has already started with Gradle and Maven. The difficulty is that there are literally millions of 'artifacts' (they actually call them that). If anyone is interested in the scripts etc. I wrote, I might be able to post them to github in the coming months. Alternatively, I might be able to PM them. But really it isn't worth it, aside from being able to harvest/mine reusable java objects. Josh _______________________________________________ Replicant mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/replicant
