Packaging Advice (SB-MASE)

[Niels Thykier]

Paul McEnery wrote:
> I'm looking for some advice on how best to package a particular Java
> application. The application in question is SB-MASE
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/sbmase/).
> 
> The package is provided with a "classes" directory with a "start.bat"
> file which runs java pointing to the Main class. The package also
> contains a "src" directory with all of the source which I am able to
> build using openjdk. There are two areas where I need some help.
> 
> 1. Images and icons.
> The application uses images which are simply in an "images" directory
> relative to the current working directory. Should I try and JAR-ify
> the images or should I simply put them in /usr/share/sb-mase/images?
> Either way I think I am going to need to patch the source to point to
> this location. Is any one of these methods (jar or structure in
> /usr/share) preferred?
> 
> 2. Configuration (including serialized objects!)
> The application reads some configuration on startup from
> "config"/*.dat (relative path). What should I do about this? If I put
> them in /etc/sb-mase/ I will need to (a) patch the application, (b)
> introduce some sort of group permissions to allow users to be able to
> write to this directory. Or, should I be trying to do something that
> allows /etc/sb-mase/*.dat to be read if ~/.sb-mase/* does not exist?
> Since many of these .dat files are Serialized objects... should I
> rather put the "config" directory in /usr/share/sb-mase/ (which is
> just used on first startup)? Either way... some patching is going to
> be required - which I am happy to undertake.
> 
> I would appreciate it if someone could take a look at the original
> source package and make a couple of recommendations.
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Paul.
> 
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Hi Paul

I am just forwarding your mail to <debian-java at lits.debian.org> - that
is the list we use for debates and questions (pkg-java is for mails from
bts and automated sources).

~Niels

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