From owner-freebsd-java Tue Aug 27 3:17:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CA1B37B400 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 03:17:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orca.seaple.icc.ne.jp (orca.seaple.icc.ne.jp [210.170.8.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBAFE43E65 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 03:17:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from westbay@seaple.icc.ne.jp) Received: from firstbase.westbay.fa.jp (cr1-199-037.seaple.icc.ne.jp [202.215.199.37]) by orca.seaple.icc.ne.jp (8.9.3/3.7W-000828) id TAA02555 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 19:14:30 +0900 (JST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Michael Westbay To: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Port/package guidelines (Ant) Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 19:16:12 +0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 References: <200208170958.14422.absinthe@pobox.com> <200208262209.AAA07190@smtp.hccnet.nl> <200208270601.27637.absinthe@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <200208270601.27637.absinthe@pobox.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200208271916.12677.westbay@seaple.icc.ne.jp> Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Carlson-san wrote: > The real question is whether we want to have Ant run dependency checkin= g > instead of the pkg system. I think we do, my opinion is to turn over = as > much of the functionality to Ant as possible. The more it does the mor= e > effective it becomes. It's still in early development, but in Jakarta commons (although NOT a=20 Jakarta Commons project) is a very promising tool called JJar: http://jakarta.apache.org/jjar/ Taken from the above page: JJAR is an acronym for Jakarta JAR Archive Repository, an attempt at making a CPAN-like service/infrastructure for the Java development community.=20 This is like a mini ports dependency system in and of itself. In fact, I= =20 think that some of the FreeBSD community with a great deal of knowledge o= n=20 how the ports dependencies work would be a good fit in this project. It is a bit flakey right now, but looks like exactly what we will eventua= lly=20 want for jar dependencies. Naturally, it runs in Ant. --=20 Michael Westbay Work: Beacon-IT http://www.beacon-it.co.jp/ Home: http://www.seaple.icc.ne.jp/~westbay Commentary: http://www.japanesebaseball.com/forum/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message