Re: Getting projects to use Zanata?

On Wed, May 10, 2017, at 01:12 AM, Carlos Munoz wrote:
> Hi Rafal,
> 
> The reasoning behind writing the client in Java was made in part
> because it allowed the team to re-use code from the server
> development. We also had much more Java experience than python so we
> would move much faster.> 
> We actually don't have that many Java dependencies for the client, but
> Fedora does make it so that a lot of unnecessary ones are pulled when
> installing the package.
It'd be great if you all would help the packagers get this straightened
out so that the unnecessary dependencies were not included. This would
benefit anyone using a Java stack.
Regards,

Bex

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> This is why we offered other installation methods which don't pull as
> many dependencies. You can even just download a zip file and use it
> that way if you so choose :)> 
> I don't personally think developing the client in Java was a mistake,
> but like everything came with pros and cons. All the client does is
> communicate with the server via REST and provide command line
> instructions to do so. So anyone could potentially write a client in
> any language!> 
> Carlos.
> 
> On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 8:48 AM Rafal Luzynski
> <[email protected]> wrote:>> 8.05.2017 11:43 Richard Hughes <[email protected]> wrote:
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > I'm getting some pushback from people when I'm asking them to
>>  > install>>  > the zanata client: it's asking them to include over 100 (!)
>>  > additional>>  > packages[1].
>>  > [...]
>> 
>>  That's because zanata-client is written in Java and has its
>>  Java-specific dependencies which have their dependencies and so on.>>  If you had any other similar Java-based application installed in
>>  your system you'd have much less new dependencies to install.
>> 
>>  It's similar to what you'd have if you installed the first
>>  Python-based (or GNOME-based) application on totally Python-free
>>  (or GNOME-free) installation.
>> 
>>  Do you think it's a bad idea to write the Zanata client in Java?
>>  If it was possible to write an alternative client in Python would
>>  you also like to write a client in other languages, for example
>>  purely native in C or C++? Is it possible at all?
>> 
>>  Regards,
>> 
>>  Rafal
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