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From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
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Subject: Re: JNA performance
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In article <alpine.DEB.2.00.1105092107070.24657@urchin.earth.li>, Tom 
Anderson says...

> >> sudo yum install jna
> >
> > Great. Let me try that on my Windows laptop.
> 
> Oh, well if you have Windows, there's a certain other piece of software 
> you'll need to install first :).
> 
> > Does an RPM package even exists for JNA?
> 
> Yes, and it's called jna!

Well, that's impressive! :) 

> There's an impressive range of Java stuff in the 
> Fedora repositories; given that the Java world tends to have its own ways 
> of doing dependency management (whether Maven or just shipping zips of 
> jars), i find this a little surprising, but it's certainly convenient.

Maven manages build dependencies, more than runtime dependencies, IMHO, 
but I do agree with your statement (in general).



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