<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 6:07 PM, William Muriithi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:william.muriithi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org" target="_blank">william.muriithi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p>Hi,</p>
<p>I have noticed that jmagick is not in most distribution's repository. Whenever that happen, I always assume there is a story behind it, may be copyright or just an impossible to work with developers like xen before they polished their acts.</p>
<p>Anyone know the story behind jmagick luck of support?</p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
<p>William </p>
</font></span></blockquote></div>Most likely simpler than that...<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">It's a Java framework, and what with the main Java implementation being sorta-open-source, sorta proprietary to Sun Microsystems, I mean, to Oracle, well, there aren't vastly many Java things that get tied tightly into Linux distributions.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">After all, if you require up-to-date Java, that requires that, as part of the installation process, that the would-be gentle user needs to click their way through licensing UIs at <a href="http://something.oracle.com">http://something.oracle.com</a>.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_extra">For a long time, that discouraged distributions from giving themselves dependencies on Java. (One might want to distinguish "critical" dependancies, e.g. - if you wrote a version of init in Java, from "noncritical" ones. Tomcat would be an excellent case of the latter. Mind you, having a bunch of apps that depend on Tomcat pushes things more in the "critical" direction...)<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I notice that on one of my Debian systems, there are ~500 dependencies on JRE. These tend to be somewhat repetitive, a cross product of ~100 apps x several versions of each, against "default-jre". Quite a lot are framework items, like Tomcat, Eclipse, JBoss, Maven.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra">-- <br>When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the<br>question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"<br>
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