[pkg-eucalyptus-maintainers] More GWT developments

[Steffen Möller]

On 08/29/2012 07:45 AM, Brian Thomason wrote:
> It looks like Chris is out of town at the moment so I don't have any update
> on the GWT bug that was filed, but I did manage to get some packaging done
> for guava-gwt bindings (which also needed the packaging of libtruth) and
> placed them in the pkg-eucalyptus svn.  guava is currently maintained in
> the pkg-java svn but does not include the GWT bindings (as GWT wasn't
> available until very recently) so I added it to the pkg-eucalyptus svn so
> as to not step on any packaging toes there.
> 
> Thomas, do you think you could sponsor libtruth and the guava updates and
> then merge my changes over into pkg-java?  I'm going to check tomorrow to
> see if the new guava breaks Eucalyptus or not (the transition from 9.0 ->
> 11.0.2 did) and report back.

I recall Thomas to have asked for sponsoring himself at some opportunity.
I can jump in on that. I just get horribly confused over all our repositories.
All above changes are done to the svn repo at pkg-eucalyptus, I read, right?

Cheers,

Steffen

> One thing to note on the packaging:  it should be fairly complete aside
> from the get-orig-source target.  IIUC, this is used by uscan on watchfiles
> and does not support fetching from revision control systems?  The only way
> I know to obtain the source for truth is:
> 
> git checkout e3b40022c6e6b6a4fe33c04f51fb5b0c60e31ece
> 
> Upstream does not use tags and provide no download deliverables. (it's
> alpha software but Google decided to use it for their Guava teslib library
> which is in turn needed to compile guava-gwt-super, part of the guava
> bindings for GWT)
> 
> I also had to replace one file in truth with a version from a previous
> release (0.5.1-beta) as the new one would not compile.  It appears to have
> the same functionality just implemented in a much simpler way.
> 
> If you have any questions, feel free to hit me up any time.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -Brian
> 
> 
> 
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