Hi Frederic, On Thu, 2016-12-08 at 14:38 +0100, Frederic Bonnard wrote: > Sorry to ping you on that again. > Any one having feedback on the validity of that bootstrap process ? Mehdi ? Emmanuel ? :) Sorry, I didn't try to understand the details of your latest effort, but just to give you a heads up - I was/have been working on packaging SBT too. A couple of months ago or so I started reviving the effort to get SBT into Debian: https://osdir.com/ml/general/2016-10/msg31364.html In a nutshell, Emmanuel packaged Scala 2.10 because it's a dependency for SBT, and the scala package moved to 2.11.8 in the meantime. Me being a newbie wrt Debian packaging had a hard time using it in the form he made it available in (it is not in the official Debian repos, but in a Java Debian team repo) to continue working on packaging SBT, and due to me being busy at school and overwhelmed with issues in packaging SBT, I silently drifted away. Nevertheless, it'd be great if there was a group of us and if we could dust this effort off and make more progress. I don't know if it's just me, but I find it hard to contribute in the current setting - there are just so many things to do to package SBT, there is so much I don't know about, then what is probably a simple and quick task for experienced developers takes a whole eternity for me, and I have a feeling as if most of the time I'm just moving around with a blindfold over my eyes. This is not to say I don't appreciate what others have helped with (it was mostly Emmanuel); I do appreciate it! The way I see it, it would be most effective if we made a clear list of things to do, splitted it into small tasks, and then a few of us got together online (e.g., IRC) and worked on this for a couple of hours. Of course, with someone experienced on board to guide those of us that are less experienced. -- 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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