Hi Emanuel, On Mon, 2016-10-24 at 14:28 +0200, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Thank you very much for offering your help. Packaging SBT would be > really great, Scala 2.12 no longer provides an Ant build and it'll be > complicated to upgrade our package without it. Oh, then there's a yet another reason to get SBT packaged! > Currently the Debian Java Team is rather short staffed and more > volunteers focusing on the Scala ecosystem would be a perfect addition. I'll gladly contribute some time to improve this situation and of course to learn as I go. > The dependency of SBT on itself is annoying but isn't the major hurdle > in my opinion. There are two strategies to deal with this: > 1. either rewrite the build system using another technology (that's how > Maven was packaged initially, by using an Ant build). > 2. or build with a non packaged version of SBT installed manually to get > an initial sbt package, and then rebuild using the package. Good to know. > The main issue with the SBT packaging is the myriad of dependencies > required. Any packaging effort should start by listing the dependencies > and packaging them one by one. > > If you undertake this task we'll be happy to help you by reviewing your > packages, sponsoring them and giving some advices (either on this > mailing list on the #debian-java IRC channel). Again, good to know. I'm not familiar with how the Debian Java team works. Is there a Git repository per package (e.g. on Alioth)? Do you maybe use Git pbuilder? Is there already a work-in-progress repository for SBT that I can take a look at? I'll get started by trying to figure out what are build dependencies for SBT. I'm just curious how do I approach this. My first guess is to go to: https://github.com/sbt/sbt/blob/1.0.x/build.sbt and sift through all dependencies declared in lines starting with: libraryDependencies ++= ... A quick look at it tells me there are many more dependencies than listed at: https://wiki.debian.org/Scala -- Regards, Marko Dimjašević <marko@dimjasevic.net> https://dimjasevic.net/marko PGP key ID: 1503F0AA Learn email self-defense! https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org
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