On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 04:27:10PM +0200, Marcus Crafter wrote: > I'm just wondering if such fine grain control is necessary ?
Yes I think so. > 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 ? With this sheme it is possible to create a package that only provides the binary java (with a couple of other usefulthings) and an other package providing the core classes. I'm updating the policy right now because it want to fix the dependencies. > 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 ? Yes if there are pacakges that only have the binary and depends on the core classes from some other package. Quite like jikes but for a virtual machine instead. 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]
