Re: [Savannah-register-public] [task #8645] Submission of Freeciv Web Client

[Yavor Doganov]

>   <http://savannah.nongnu.org/task/?8645>

I need some help here, please.

I suspect this project might not be suitable for hosting at Savannah,
although there is no firm evidence AFAICT:

* The Resin HTTP server licensing seems a bit fishy.
* I have not figured out how Google's diff-match-patch is used, it
  might be incompatible.
* When I do `mvn install' on a gNS system, I get:

[ERROR] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Compilation failure
Unable to locate the Javac Compiler in:
  /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.2-1.5.0.0/jre/../lib/tools.jar
Please ensure you are using JDK 1.4 or above and
not a JRE (the com.sun.tools.javac.Main class is required).
In most cases you can change the location of your Java
installation by setting the JAVA_HOME environment variable.


Unable to locate the Javac Compiler in:
  /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.2-1.5.0.0/jre/../lib/tools.jar
Please ensure you are using JDK 1.4 or above and
not a JRE (the com.sun.tools.javac.Main class is required).
In most cases you can change the location of your Java
installation by setting the JAVA_HOME environment variable.

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] For more information, run Maven with the -e switch
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 2 minutes 44 seconds
[INFO] Finished at: Sun Nov 30 17:09:48 GMT+02:00 2008
[INFO] Final Memory: 19M/26M

(I've never used maven before.)

* During the build, the build procedure downloads many Java packages
  from the Internet, apparently needed to generate the resulting .jar
  (or .war?).  I don't know how to check them, and in general I don't
  know how to ensure that this particular package meets the Savannah
  project criteria.  I guess that if it is possible to run FreeCiv in
  a web-browser on a completely free system, that would be fine.
  However, I can't accomplish that without some hints.