From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Maven Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 08:16:30 +0200 Message-ID: <8737m39ayp.fsf@elephly.net> References: <20160816183632.30820-1-dannym@scratchpost.org> <20160816204952.064e056b@scratchpost.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45321) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bZu9Y-00059R-1X for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2016 02:16:40 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bZu9U-0007eh-TY for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2016 02:16:40 -0400 Received: from sender163-mail.zoho.com ([74.201.84.163]:24465) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bZu9U-0007eY-Le for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2016 02:16:36 -0400 In-reply-to: <20160816204952.064e056b@scratchpost.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Danny Milosavljevic Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Danny Milosavljevic writes: > I also tried to package the Arduino GUI - but it has lots of Apache > Commons dependencies and those use the Maven repo system. > > Has anyone already packaged Apache Commons libraries? I have not, but the few Java packages I contributed were added because they are needed to bootstrap dependencies that eventually lead to Maven. You may find that to package the Apache Commons libraries you need to dig deeper and package seemingly unrelated libraries first. Many Java packages bundle dependencies or depend at build time on binaries that are not easy to build from source. I’d be happy if we had more people looking at how to package more of Java. ~~ Ricardo