[gentoo-dev] [gentoo-java][PR] ivy, mvn, sbt, gradle builders improvement for ebuild development

[Samuel Bernardo]

Dear Java team,

I send this email to mention that it seems to be missing eclasses for
JVM builders such as those I mention in this email subject. Dependencies
and tasks management are hard tasks now that I think to have great scope
for improvement.

Looking into the developments made in go eclasses, there is a very
interesting solution in go-module.eclass with EGO_SUM to avoid the need
of additional tarballs to fulfill the network sandbox requirement. This
way, dependencies could be listed from files, optimizing the current
approach without requiring to distribute blinded dependency tarballs.

I also check java-ant-2.eclass to manage build tasks for ant. Would be
very useful to have eclass like this for the other builders.

Also review java-pkg-2.eclass and java-utils-2.eclass that are more
related to Java packages and ant builder. Seems more difficult than
usual to understand them and how to apply to other projects. Maybe to
turn this more friendly a java-common.eclass could be created for
example, collecting the common variables and functions such as
java-pkg_getjars and java-pkg_dojar, to reuse them with all JVM dialect
related projects.

Are you forging any solutions already to improve this kind of PR?

Thanks,

Samuel