Bug 29183 – dev-java/snipsnap-0.4.2a is not compiled from sources

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Karl Trygve Kalleberg (RETIRED) 2003-09-20 05:20:48 UTC]

The package is not compiled from sources. This makes it unecessarily problematic
for users (and developers) to add patches to the source-code.

Our basic rule is to _ALWAYS_ compile Java applications from sources, for
numerous obvious reasons:)

Furthermore, is there any chance we can avoid storing crimson, jasper, jetty,
lucene and the other apache.org stuff a gazillion times? Can't we make snipsnap
depend on these packages from dev-java?

The tarball is freaking 8MBs, which is completely pointless 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. ebuild snipsnap fetch unpack
2. patch the source code
3. whoops, the source code isn't unpacked, nor will it be compiled


Actual Results:  
I got angry.

Expected Results:  
Allowed me to patch the source code at whim, as is my right as a devoted and
fanatical Gentoo Linux User, and the reason why I threw the other distros on the
boat.

[Comment 1 Karl Trygve Kalleberg (RETIRED) 2003-09-20 05:22:26 UTC]

If you don't want it, throw it back to me, and I'll fix it. 

[Comment 2 Thomas Matthijs (RETIRED) 2004-10-15 10:43:26 UTC]

/me throws back ;-)

[Comment 3 Karl Trygve Kalleberg (RETIRED) 2004-11-16 04:26:21 UTC]

Who uses this anyway?;)