On 2011-08-15 22:18:51 (+0200), Pascal Bleser
We could certainly try to add something to RPM in order to autoreq some Provides and Requires.
The Provides and Requires I mentioned are generated by the pom2spec script itself.
Quite some time ago, I wrote a prototype that can determine Requires: and Provides: automatically from analyzing the bytecode (in .jar or .class files).
It uses jdepend [1]. Don't remember where it is, but if someone is interested, I can dig it out, must be somewhere on my harddisk. I even managed to compile it into a native binary with gcj ;)
Found it, and committed it to my git repo, here: https://gitorious.org/pbleser/pbleser/trees/master/jfindreqprov It's an Eclipse project, but there's also a "build.sh" to build it as a native ELF binary using gcj. It has no dependencies except for jdepend, which is included in a stripped-down jar file in lib/ [...] cheers -- -o) Pascal Bleser /\\ http://opensuse.org -- we haz green _\_v http://fosdem.org -- we haz conf