On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Jeff Breidenbach wrote:
>> Once there is a Debian Java Lucene 1.9 source
package available, the PyLucene
>> 1.9 package could be made to depend on it, unpack
it, apply the patches, build
>> it (and not install it) and then build itself.
Seems pretty straightforward to
>> me.
>
> Sorry, that's not how it works. Currently Java Lucene
1.4.3 is in Debian. That
> does not mean the Java Lucene 1.4.3 source code is
available to be used as
> a build dependency.
That is why I mentioned a dependency on a Java Lucene
*source* package. If
such a thing doesn't exist (pardon my ignorance) then this
option will not
work.
> A more likely scenario is what Matthew described -
snapshot Java Lucene source
> code and make that part of the PyLucene source package.
That'd be fine too.
> Yet Another Option (what are we on now, 5? 6?) is for
Debian to patch
> it's version
> of Java Lucene 1.9 to be compatible with PyLucene. This
only makes sense if
> the patches are benign - i.e. do not significantly
interfere with
> other users of Java
> Lucene. For example, the eclipse people would go
berserk if we broke
> their build.
At the moment, the patches are not making any API changes
nor incompatible
class changes although I'm not so sure about the last patch
in patches.lucene
adding a new private final int to the class definition.
Also, there are other patches for the Java Lucene contrib
packages in PyLucene
such as the regex contrib package which is patched to
replace the dependency
on a java-based regex processing package with Python's.
In any case, I wouldn't assume that PyLucene patches are
going to be that safe
always. I've had to make API renames in the source code in
the past.
This makes this fifth option a non starter.
> Let's try to boil this down into an immediate todo
list:
>
> 1) Find out if Java Lucene 1.9 can compile with kaffe
[JB? Barry? Anyone?]
Would compiling Java Lucene with Jikes qualify, or with
Eclipse's ecj ?
Are these java compilers compatible with Debian's licensing
requirements ?
Andi..
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