From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: FOSDEM 2018 Guile devroom Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 22:25:47 +0200 Message-ID: <87infaj35g.fsf@gnu.org> References: <3b45845d-8c44-bb91-61e6-0ef216e214d5@gmail.com> <20171018.171524.1284693222862672372.post@thomasdanckaert.be> <874lqvoakm.fsf@gnu.org> <87efpz33te.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38879) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e5HO6-0000y4-6y for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2017 16:25:55 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e5HO5-0002Wb-7t for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2017 16:25:54 -0400 Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([2a01:474::1]:53672) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e5HO5-0002UO-07 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2017 16:25:53 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87efpz33te.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Thu, 19 Oct 2017 11:05:56 +0200") 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: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: Thomas Danckaert , alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com, pjotr2016@thebird.nl, guix-devel@gnu.org Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > =E2=80=9CFree Java=E2=80=9D is an interesting name for a devroom track. = I guess I could > talk about freedom problems with the Java culture of never building > software recursively from source, and introduce how we=E2=80=99re approac= hing > this problem in Guix. > > The Java bootstrap could also be demonstrated in that talk. Indeed, sounds like we have a lot to discuss with =E2=80=9Cthe Java folks.= =E2=80=9D > (Does anyone know how this is done in Debian? Do they actually build > all of their Java packages from source?) No idea, but we should definitely get in touch with the Java team. Ludo=E2=80=99.