On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 11:40:11AM -0500, Ben Burton wrote: > > > As the new maintainer I have now finally had the time to > > change the policy acording to the discussions on the java > > mailinglist. > > Wondeful! Looks great.
Thanks. > Some comments. > > "Main, contrib or non-free": > > - orp is another free JVM in main; this should be added to the list. Ok I'll add that on next update. > - guavac does not exist in unstable; note that jikes claims to replace > it. Will guavac be released with woody? At any rate, since it's no > longer in unstable, I suggest this be removed from the list of free > compilers. Ok I'll do that. > "Java programs": > > - More of a question than a comment. This section says that apps *must* > put their classes in /usr/share/java. Is this true even for apps that > should never share their classes (such as apps whose classes are all in > the default package)? Well I decided not to change that. The previous policy said that they must be in /usr/share/java (or in the /usr/share/java/repository) but I'll of course change it if people object. A should is probably better and maybe add a note when it is not needed. > And regarding the proposed JVM registry, what is to become of this > proposal? I believe the problems it addresses are serious, and the only > way it will resolve them is if the JVMs actually register themselves, > which pretty much means the JVM registry would have to be in policy. I agree that the problems are serious. But I have not heard of any consensus about it. I think we need more discussion and some more code before I add it to the policy. I like the idéa. Actually I found out that the java-virtual-machine-dummy and java-compiler-dummy had a similar script. Just a lot simpler. > If the proposed registry is considered good enough for this (the specs I > mailed out were quite precise as far as the registry itself goes) then > I'll have a go at implementing some of these helper scripts. But I'm not > prepared to spend the time doing it if I receive the same reaction as I > did for the previous sets of scripts I posted to address the same problem, > which was complete apathy from all but about two people. :) Well I like the idéa. What do you want to add to the policy and what do you want to add to the java-common package. I'm ready for that now. :) Regards, // Ola -- --------------------- Ola Lundqvist --------------------------- / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Björnkärrsgatan 5 A.11 \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 584 36 LINKÖPING | | +46 (0)13-17 69 83 +46 (0)70-332 1551 | | http://www.opal.dhs.org UIN/icq: 4912500 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / --------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
