On 9/30/05, Rusty Phillips <rustyp@...> wrote:
> I just downloaded the java experimental tree and gave emerging hibernate
> a shot.  Unsuprisingly, it didn't work.  There were a few packages that
> have no available source files, and a few that I couldn't get to compile
> even on their own.

Could you please let me which packages didn't have source, and which
ones couldn't compile? Chances are they are things that I am
maintaining in experimental. For several things that were used cvs /
svn checkouts, I was hosting the files on a server I had access to
when I was in school, but have since graduated, and they finally got
around to nuking my webspace and account. Hopefully I will be able to
find an alternative sometime soon.

> Anyway, I have a few questions about it:
> What is the status of getting hibernate working in Gentoo?
I'm using hibernate-2 on a project I'm currently working on. Might
want to give the official tree version a shot until I can get all the
tarballs back online.

> Is there anyone working on that now?
I haven't been working on it recently. I came up to a stopping point
as I mention below. Will probably pick up the torch again once I wrap
up some non-Gentoo projects and make some more progress on other
Gentoo things, such as finish my developer quizes ;)

> Has anyone using this list gotten it working for themselves?
As I mentioned, works for me. But please do share what packages are
giving you problems, and the errors that you are getting.

> Is this "splitting up JBoss" plan still going to go ahead?
The splitting up of JBoss is mostly done. There's only one or two
modules left to be packaged, but I kind of came to a stand still. It
came down to where one module couldn't find some static utility
functions, but I couldn't figure out for the life of me why they
couldn't be found because they appeared to be on the classpath.

Once those remaining modules are complete, then the last step would be
to put them together to resemble a normal JBoss installation. This
would involve either:

- Use the build.xml, by making all sorts of symlinks to the things it
would expect to be around
- Put the things together in the ebuild.

It would generally be better to use upstream provided method, but the
problem is that ant does a lot of copying, and ant isn't know how to
handle symlinks.

The problem with putting it together ourselves would be making sure it
is put together properly, and would be a PITA to maintain.

> I come here because I couldn't get any answers find any answers to these
> questions in the forum, the bug tree, the docs, or the wiki.
> Thanks for your time.
Another good place to look is on #gentoo-java.

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Josh Nichols
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