Re: [gentoo-java] Slotting jsch?

[Jean-Noël Rivasseau]

Hi,

Ok I managed to pull a patch for Eclipse which permits to build against
jsch-0.1.36, so no need to slot.

Afterwards, I discovered that ali_bush did write the same exact patch... :(

Maybe we should communicate more to avoid duplicating efforts!

Elvanör

On 1/15/08, William L. Thomson Jr. <wltjr@g.o> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 17:38 +0100, Jean-Noël Rivasseau wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I unfortunately discovered today that Eclipse-3.3 won't build against
> > jsch-0.1.36, although I assumed it would. It builds against 0.1.34.
> >
> > Shall I then slot 0.1.34 and 0.1.36? Seems stupid to slot between such
> > minor version revisions, but since upstream breaks API...
> > Else I can restrict Eclipse dependency on jsch to 0.1.34 but this will
> > prevent people to install 0.1.36 - not good.
> >
> > Jean-Noël
> >
> > PS: the reason it does not compile anymore is that on 0.1.36 one
> > function can throw an exception whereas it did not before, and Eclipse
> > code does not expect an exception. I could patch Eclipse but I don't
> > really want to go that way, because:
> > 1) I really wouldn't know how to patch exactly and prefer to leave
> > these stuff to upstream;
> > 2) It may very well be that a lot of the API has changed.
>
> Can you check to see how many places in Eclipse would need to be
> modified. See how many other apps that would benefit from having jsch
> slotted. Also might check in their vc system to see if they have
> modified things already for a newer jsch.
>
> We surely have no problem slotting stuff on the Java front. Lots of
> stuff is already and likely more stuff with. Very likely jsch is a
> candidate. If more than just Eclipse could benefit from it.
>
> If it's only Eclipse and doesn't require major code modifications. Might
> seriously consider a patch. Prevents us from having to slot. Plus you
> can provide patch to upstream for future releases. Likely get you some
> bonus points with upstream. The faster and better you can establish a
> relationship with upstream. The better your life will be while
> maintaining Eclipse :)
>
> FYI, I am about to patch Tomcat per something upstream wouldn't comment
> on. Redirecting stdout/stdin via System.setErr/setOut. Verses using
> shell redirection to populate catalina.out. Now that's going pretty much
> against upstream. A modification they may or may not ever make. In your
> case, at some point the Eclipse code base will be updated for a newer
> jsch. So you doing it and contributing that, will help them.
>
> --
> William L. Thomson Jr.
> Gentoo/amd64/Java
>
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