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Re: A plea for a distribution of the XML/Java Apache tools



The obstacle would not be legal, I tend to agree, but practical.  Have you
ever tried to install an EJB server?  You need the JDK, you need JNDI, you
need JTA, you need JDBC, you need the "rmiregistry" daemon, you need a
custom .jar file, and on and on.  Would it be useful for someone to make a
package of this stuff?  Certainly.  Would it be a maintenance nightmare to
juggle all of these disparate pieces that have to be downloaded and
unpacked separately?  Certainly.

My estimate is that it is ten times as much work to make an installer than
a standard package, especially as all of Java is a rapidly moving target.

-- Mike


On 2000-05-23 at 15:00 -0700, Erik wrote:

> Well, it would seem to me that there is no reason (legaly) that debian cannot
> provide an install-wrapper, similar to what there is(or was, not sure) for
> netscape, and realaudio.  That or provide a partial source package(.diff and .dsc),
> and have the user aquire the origional file(which is most likely binary?) from
> sun and build a proper package.




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