On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 10:36 AM Michal Srb <m...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Hi Bill, > > > On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 4:29 PM Bill Chatfield via devel > <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: >> >> I may take it as soon as I figure out how. >> >> But, if you're building a Java app, you probably use Maven to build it, so >> Maven is going to download from mavencentral, not the version packaged in >> Fedora. So I'm beginning to wonder how useful the packaged apps are. Am I >> missing something? > > > Packaged Java apps are useful, but packaged libraries (if not used by any > Java app in the distribution) not so much. Nobody's going to develop anything > against them. Like you said, developers will fetch what they need from Maven > Central. >
If we don't have packaged libraries, nobody can ship packaged applications. And there are definitely cases where people develop against packaged Java libraries. I used to work in one such case. Nowadays I live primarily in the Python ecosystem, and I can live entirely in packaged libraries there too. It'd be nice to have this again for Java. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ 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
