On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 05:27:12PM +0200, Marcus Crafter wrote:
> >
> > Great work, and thanks for updating the policy. :-)
> >
> > Just one question though - I'm curious why programs have to depend on
> > both java-virtual-machine *and* java1/2-runtime now ? Why is this so ?
>
> Well the java1/2-runtime are just virtual packages. But of course we
> can update the policy to say that every package that provide
> java1/2-runtime must also depend on java-virtual-machine.
> Should we do that?
>
> > ...
>
> The virtual machine is the program that you run.
>
> The rumtime is the classes.
I'm just wondering if such fine grain control is necessary ?
If all jvm packages out there specified whether they were java1-runtime
or java2-runtime compliant (or both), then all java packages could
depend on the runtime they require ?
This eliminates the need for java-virtual-machine alltogether, and
places the level or control at the runtime version number.
Or would there be cases where that would cause problems ?
Cheers,
Marcus
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