Monday, 30 July 2007

Checking out JPackage

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It's been a while since the last time I looked at JPackage, so I thought I look back. JPackage provides rpms of common java libraries and frameworks for linux.

I was hoping that since Java has gone GPL (98%) anyway, that JPackage would have an rpm for it. Nope. They don't even have java-1.6 at all yet. And that's my general comment on most of the things they do have... they're old. Spring? no 2.0. Struts? no 2.0. JBoss? 4.0.3 is their latest. Tomcat? no 6.0. Generally, I don't see the point -- I've already got the old packages, I generally want to install newer things. So, sorry, JPackage just isn't helping me.

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