Bug#639910: Any news on : building sbt with make for bootstraping

[Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi@dogguy.org>]

Hi,

On 2015-11-20 11:36, Frederic Bonnard wrote:
> I saw the proposition of Mehdi to ask the sbt upstream to propose a 
> source
> tarball of sbt and include a standalone version of sbt, but I didn't 
> see any
> answer (except if d) was one)

I haven't had any reply, and I have given up.

> Also I wanted to ask Mehdi, if there wasn't another way by putting sbt 
> in
> nonfree. Or maybe have a sbt-bootstrap in nonfree, and a sbt in main 
> that would
> be built from nonfree. Though, for sbt-bootstrap, we would need a self 
> contained
> sbt (no internet download), right ?

You can build sbt using a pre-built sbt, like what is done, for example, 
for gcc,
scala, etc... IMHO, it is not justified for sbt but ymmv. You can try to 
get in
touch with Debian's Java team (which maintains Scala) to get some help 
on this topic.

HTH,

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Mehdi Dogguy