Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com> writes:

> What Julien means is that if you were trying to write an importer,
> you'd end up writing one that produces something like this
>
>   (define-public java-language-tool
>      (package 
>        (name "java-language-tool")
>        (version "6.0")
>        (source this-thing-raises-an-error)
>        ...
>        (inputs (list java-commons-cli ...))
>        (native-inputs (list java-junit ...))
>        ...))
>
>   (define-public java-commons-cli
>      (package
>         (name "java-commons-cli")
>         (version some-version)
>         (source this-thing-raises-an-error)
>         ...))
>
> In other words, you won't be able to actually build language-tool until
> you insert proper sources in all the source fields – which Julien fears
> maven, being a binary distribution system first and foremost, won't
> deliver on its own.
>
> Cheers

I see. Thanks.