On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Bernd Schoeller wrote: > On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 06:12:54PM +0200, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > > We need some sort of policy how to deal with software written in > > Java. We have a number of ports that are basically just wrappers > > that install pre-compiled Java byte code. > > Please have the java source in the ports tree, and the .class/.jar > stuff in the packages. Without going into the political details, this > is just what I would expect as a user.
This is all very nice, but someone has to do the work. Kurt, who does do the work, says that maintaining source-based ports is too much hassle for him on slower platforms. So if people really want this approach then you need to be prepared to help out more than happens now. -d
