On 8/22/07, Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Debian Java users, > > I am not really into Java packaging in Debian, but have been looking > around a bit. I was actually looking to see if Apache Cocoon can > somehow make it into Debian, which will eventually pave the way for > inclusion of Lenya, Forrest and many more of the nice Java stuff > Apache has.
Cocoon was in Debian a long time ago but it's been removed. Yes, it'd be a good thing to have Cocoon in Debian. > Now, I have identified some of the dependencies of Cocoon, and thought > we could start with Apache Excalibur. Now, there's a stumbling block > right from the word go. Look at: > http://wiki.apache.org/excalibur/BuildProcess > > under the "Manual Jar Download" section. Now, of the jars mentioned there: > mailapi: GNU has an API which has similar functionality > jsse: included with Java 2 SDK, so if we allow that, we can allow > Excalibur into contrib. Why contrib? Isn't jsse also in GNU/Classpath? > jms: Oops! We need to accept some license from Sun to even download > the pre-build jar! > > So, can you suggest something which can be done, or is it that there's > no way out till we have a free alternative to these jars (or Sun frees > them)? Or am I getting something wrong here? Maybe Tom Marble can help here ;-) -- Arnaud Vandyck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
