[jbosstools-dev] Packaging JBoss Tools for Fedora (issue & potential patches)

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi, For the past while I've been working on packaging JBoss Tools for Fedora as part of my GSOC project (Fedora JBoss Spin)[0]. I've just run into a slight problem, and I'm trying to look for the cleanest/easiest way to work around it. I'm hoping that there might be someone on this list who can provide some further insight or advice! :) First, a little background on the problem. As you can imagine, for Fedora, we've got a lot of rules and regulations on how stuff can be packaged. One of these is that any bundled libraries or precompiled code must be removed before building, and where necessary/possible, a package is created for each library that is removed so that the process for the original software that was being built can continue. Another rule that we have is that only the latest version of stuff can be packaged, so that everything can be maintained as cleanly as possible. The part of JBoss Tools that's causing a spot of trouble with these rules so far is the org.jboss.ide.eclipse.archives.core bundle. In the lib/ directory of this, there are some quite old jars, with truezip and jbossxb (jboss-xml-binding.jar) being the most prominent of these, and the others seeminly being dependencies for these. I've managed to package the latest truezip release (7.5.5, as opposed to the bundled 6.6), and I've patched the code of the archives.core plugin to make it work. I hope that these changes can be checked and integrated by you guys at some stage! :) The jbossxb dependency has proved somewhat more troublesome. The bundled version is a bit old (2.0.0.CR6), and has a different set of dependencies than the most recent release[1] (2.0.3.GA from 2010). I had managed to get over that hurdle temporarily, and the more recent release seemed to work. The problem occured when jbossxb and its dependencies were being reviewed for inclusion into the Fedora repositories, and the reviewer noticed that one of the dependencies for that (jboss-reflect), bundles its own forked version of another library (objectweb-asm), that isn't fully compatible with the upstream version. This is also not allowed in Fedora. Since this problem child (jboss-reflect) seems to be obselete and forgotten about (I can only find it as a subproject of AS6[2]), I don't necessarily want to package it for Fedora unless it's absolutely necessary. You're probably wondering why I'm talking to you on jbosstools-dev ML about this? My query is, how essential is this jbossxb dependency for org.jboss.ide.eclipse.archives.core? Is there any way that it could be avoided, or are there any drop-in replacements that we could try instead? Have you got any other suggestions that I could try? Also, if you are interested in trying the most recent development version of the Fedora JBoss Spin, you can find more info on it here[3] and run it as a live usb image or in a vm. thanks for reading, Gerard. [0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora-JBoss-Spin [1] https://source.jboss.org/changelog/JBossCommon/jbossxb/trunk [2] http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/projects/jboss-reflect/ [3] https://blog.grdryn.me/2012/07/09/fedora-jboss-spin-gsoc-update-7 - -- Gerard Ryan :: gerard(a)ryan.lt :: http://blog.grdryn.me :: @grdryn PGP Fingerprint: AA11 A666 C98E B6D8 231C 11ED 6EDC 7E4A 62BC 4A15