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On 5/5/06, Joshua Nichols <nichoj@g.o> wrote: |
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> robert burrell donkin wrote: |
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> > On 5/4/06, *Joshua Nichols* <nichoj@g.o |
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<snip> |
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> why the emphasis on software libre? |
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> And I think you're reading too much into what I said. By libre, I really |
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> mean open source. |
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good :-) |
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> why exclude ASL'd libraries from the effort? |
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> ASL? Do you mean the Apache license? |
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yep |
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In either case, I don't recall |
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> saying anything about excluding anything. |
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ASL2 is still incompatible with GPL2 |
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free java means rebuilding the complete stack including replacements for all |
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ASL'd applications and libraries. so there's a little bit of politics in the |
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mix. |
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> why not open source java? |
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> Uh, open source java is EXACTLY what I'm talking about :) |
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good :-) |
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gump (http://gump.apache.org/) builds and tests 700 projects from source |
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each day. IIRC the classpath team run gump. might be able to dig out an url |
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if you're interested in seeing the current level of progress. |
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in general, finding a way to generate EBUILDs from gump descriptors would |
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make available a lot of libraries and applications without extensive effort. |
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a maven EBUILD plugin would be even better. |
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apache has a lot of API implementations but they are scattered amongst |
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different projects. it would probably be generally a good thing if they were |
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more easily accessible. fixing that would also be a big gain for a small |
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amount of effort. |
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In the future, be sure to reply on-list. |
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yeh sorry (mumbles something about gmail) |
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- robert |