On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 5:07 PM Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. > > This is more complicated and it would probably deserve a separate thread :) Java and Python are completely different ecosystems. And Java ecosystem (apps/libs) is just inherently unfriendly to Linux distributions. It's not necessary bad or broken - it's just different. I am curious: what was the reason to develop against the packaged Java libraries? Thanks, Michal > > > -- > 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 >
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