Multiverse question (re: Eclipse)

Jerry Haltom wasabi at larvalstage.net
Thu May 26 23:17:43 CDT 2005


In the case of a "yes", as a universe uploader can I upload to
multiverse?

If not, what's it take?

On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 22:48 -0500, Jerry Haltom wrote:
> I have a package, Eclipse, which I'd like to get uploaded so that I can
> get people using it, and start cleaning it up. At this point it has one
> dependency which is not buildable from source with distributable tools
> (Lucene, a Java component). This one component needs to be build with a
> non-free JVM at this time.
> 
> Is this a candidate for a binary upload to multiverse?
> 
> Obviously I am working towards getting it completely buildable from
> source. The entire FOSS Java community is. However, at this point, it
> isn't.
> 
> I'd like Eclipse up so that it can get some visibility. I want users who
> want to give it a try to be able to get easy access to it. I also don't
> have the resources to host a 50MB source package (It's Java!!!) on my
> own.
> 
> The goal is to get this freed up before Breezy.
> 
> -- 
> Jerry Haltom <wasabi at larvalstage.net>
> 
> 
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Jerry Haltom <wasabi at larvalstage.net>




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