On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 08:41:50AM -0800, Dalibor Topic wrote: > Hi Ben, *SNIP*
> > > > Perhaps Depends: kaffe | java1-runtime to show the > > user that I know it > > works on kaffe but to allow a user to install some > > other JVM instead? This is preferred anyway. Actually you will get a lintian warning(?) or error(?) about this if you do not specify a preferred alternative. > That seems logical to me: if you know that your app > works on gcj, kaffe and sablevm, then you'd specify > them explicitely, for the unknown rest you'd use > javaX-runtime, cross your fingers and wait for the bug > reports. Please do not list more than necessary. > How many bug reports you get will from users of > not-explicitely specified VMs depends on how liberal > the maintainers of these VMs handle javaX-runtime, and > that's probably out of your control. And of course, if > users of a not-explicitely-specified VM contacted you > telling that it all works great, you could add them to > the "officially endorsed" mix. But I guess that's > where that debian java policy thing comes in ;) > > The drawback is that it all makes your dependencies > larger, and probably kills most of the benefits > provided by having a purely virtual javax-runtime. On The benefit is that if a new package is packaged that provides say, java2-runtime and some other things, it can easily be integrated and people can change without the need to change, say hundred of other java packages. > the other hand, given that the state of things is as > it is, I think it's a good compromise between locking > down users to a single VM that works out of the box, > and implementing all the missing functionality in all > the free VMs out there ;) > > I assume (i.e. I don't know, and I don't feel like > digging through years of debian-java archives) that > prior to having a unified javax-runtime, debian has > used a system like that. Why was it changed? Did the > expected benefits materialize? It had only java-virtual-machine, java-compiler and nothing else. It is changed becuase back then there were about five java packages in debian so there were no real need of anything else. Regards, // Ola > cheers, > dalibor topic > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- --------------------- Ola Lundqvist --------------------------- / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Annebergsslingan 37 \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 654 65 KARLSTAD | | +46 (0)54-10 14 30 +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]
